Pros
The install couldn't be easier. Right click the tray icon to access everything. It's also useful as a lan server for using wordpress and all its community features in an office, for example.
If you had a windows server installed, you'll need to uninstall it and all it's extra pieces. I had to disable my windows firewall to make the server accessible over the lan, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time to find the right firewall setting and security wasn't an issue on our secure lan.
Wordpress works great, you just need to install a mysql database first, then you can use automatic install.
The address in the network is just the ip of the machine where wampserver is installed, like 192.168.0.5 which will go to the www directory. Sub directories are addressed normally, like 192.168.0.5/wordpress
Wampserver comes with phpmyadmin, but I use adminer myself--simply drop the adminer file into the www directory.
Wordpress works normally with automatic updates, plugins, etc.
Cons
Haven't found any.
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easy to install
Cons
vhosts listing in localhost page needs documentation
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Pros
Great for new developers in html and javascript
Cons
if you are trying to test a wordpress site do not use
unless you know how to configure MYSQL setting up loading and other setting will be a problem
Summary
Great program if you know what you are doing but if you are a newbie i wont recommend this program
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Reply by Krontor on February 1, 2013
You don't have to configure mysql--it's setup automatically. You just have to create a database to use with wordpress which is not that hard. You might find adminer easier to use than phpmyadmin--just put the adminer file in the www directory and login as root without a password. But yeah, it will take a little reading to figure it out if you're unfamiliar with setting up a database.
Pros
a good one among not much of such apps
Cons
so far I don't meet problem running test of my work
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Easy to set up, easy to run, easy to maintain
Cons
Joomla doesn't like it. If you need to run Joomla on your local machine, get xampp instead.
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Pros
very easy to set up, everything is working after a few minutes.. If I have to set up apache + php + mysql manualy,I will spend hours on it..
Cons
dont see any cons here
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Pros
theoretically eliminates (or drastically reduces) php/mysql/apache configuration challenges
Cons
didn't work for me
Summary
I couldn't get wamp to come up on my system so rather than trouble-shoot it I uninstalled it and tried xampp http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html instead. xampp worked great for me right out of the chute on a wide variety of platforms (2000 server, XP, Vista, even Windows 7 release candidate). xampp is easy to use. I had my most complicated web site (including php and mysql) up and running on my 2000 server with minimal effort and little frustration. I love the firezilla FTP server too - it makes managing my test - user acceptance - production migrations a piece of cake. so - wamp is probably OK, I probably COULD have made it work - but xampp is simply better.
Updated on Jul 26, 2009
typo in subject line - should be XAMPP
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Pros
easy to use and accountability
Cons
nothing bad
Summary
great stuff to test
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