SilverStripe: WAMP Versus XAMPP

Did you know that WAMP is totally different with XAMPP? Read the explanation of WAMP and XAMPP caferully:

WAMP Server or you can call it as Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows, is a Windows web development environment. Once WampServer is installed, you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want but all the PHP releases aren't compatible with the Apache releases. It didn't mean WampServer knows which releases can work together and lets you know when it is not possible to switch so easy. You have to change some code at PHP.ini. Ou! And this is an experience of mine when I published my website. The website shows many error, so I have to make some changes to make it compatible. It is so hard for the begginer like me. Poor me poor me..

And how about XAMPP?


XAMPP is popular with the Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Till the last release, XAMPP cannot work well on Windows Vista and higher. He said, because of the Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) which aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase or elevation. So you have to dissable the UAC (from msconfig), if the localhost cannot work in your web browser. But I am so lucky! The localhost is working!

And, if you read my last post that tell you about the failure when I flushed the theme of wine of SilverStripe. Change the server is the solution that I recommended to you. I changed my WAMP to XAMPP and everything is solved without any editing.