WAMP Architecture

Setting up Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl on your own personal Windows' based machine? Don't really know how to do it? Worried about security? I'm not really much of an enthusiast over pre-made packages that auto-install all 4 (and, actually more) software packages on to your local computer for development purposes, but this one actually seems really, really nice. I can't take the full credit for finding this, as someone else pointed me to it as I was trying to help them install these packages individually, but the features seem really, really nice:

- The security of your server is one of our #1 concerns and with that, we tend to set every single default setting as if your server will be used in production.
- Other security measures we take is that we update our package with every new release of PHP, MySQL, Perl, phpMyAdmin, and the Apache HTTPd Server.
- Supports plugins
- Web-Based administration page (Alpha)
- SSL Support OUT OF THE BOX

Plugins:
- FTP (x2)
- Java servlet engine(s) (Resin and/or Tomcat)
- PHP4 downgrade
- ActivePython (I didn't even know this existed ... time for a new download)
- Stunnel
- Admin Panel and Web-Based Admin
- Zend Optimizer (future plan)

I would suggest this to anyone just starting out now that I've seen it. If it didn't use Apache 2.0, I might even use it myself.

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