To get started, you should have two software – WAMP and the Drupal package. WAMP is a software stack consisting of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. First, you will have to install WAMP on Windows. In ...

WordPress has gathered a lot of fans from across the globe and currently, it is powering more than a third of all the websites, according to a report. It has acquired popularity due to its great ...

While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

Last week in Gearhead I discussed the struggle to get my hosting provider to give me a server with the version of PHP I needed to run a PHP-based groupware system. Last week in Gearhead I discussed ...

Set up a free local server on your PC or Mac so you can run a new WordPress site without your work being visible to the world. Nik Rawlinson Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 ...

There are two places where I do software development for the Web. The first is “out there,” on the Web server for which I pay my monthly hosting fee. The second is “in here,” right on my own desktop, ...