Windows-specific guidelines
Last modified: February 28, 2009 - 20:55
In this section you will learn how to set up a local test site on your Windows box. Several packages exist which install Apache, PHP, MySQL and some other useful components in one easy download. These include the following:
- ApacheFriends XAMPP
- WampServer 2
- Uniform Server
- Web.Developer Suite (commercial product)
A comparison of many packages can be found at Wikipedia.
The following packages also includes Drupal as part of the installation:
Alternatively, you can take the difficult option and install each component (Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc) manually. For this, check out the relevant links below.