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Creating Dynamic Pages 12

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I have heard that using a single installer like WAMP has problems, and that I should manually install

everything instead. Is this correct?

If you are setting up a live Web server that will be publically accessible, manually installing the Apache

server, PHP, and MySQL is generally better. That way, you can control exactly what is installed and where it

installs, and customize the security settings as needed. However, if you are instead setting up a local

testing machine that only you will have access to, as is the case in these examples, WAMP provides a much

quicker and easier installation process.

The final step of the wizard
appears.
9 Click Install.
WAMP installs.

The installation directory

screen appears.

7 Accept the default

installation directory and

click Next.

The additional tasks screen

appears.

8 Choose if you want additional

icons installed and click Next.

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