Help for offline development

[Steve7]

Hello Members, as I am on learning stage in web development, I want to know how to use WAMP? I just installed on my laptop and want to develop offline site. But I don't know from where can I start? Help me...

[bytejunkie]

you'll get more responses if you ask actual questions.

to be honest, if you dont know the basics of web development, ie, page structure, which language to use where, then you don't need wamp yet.

but if you do, just google or youtube getting started with wamp. theres so many tutorials out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJBh8z85cM

the basics of it are, you need a folder of code, a local sitename to put into a browser and wamp to tie the two together.

[herulach]

HTML you can start without a server. Whether you then go with wamp/lamp lighttpd perl etc you should probably decide based on your hosting environment.

[mikeo01]

WAMPs great when you want to at least test the site online (a.k.a local). Or offline (your computer) to make sure everything's working properly.

Develop your website, all files etc should go in WAMP/WWW directory. There you type into a web browser either "localhost:" and the filename or the loopback address 127.0.0.1 and your filename.


WAMP is mainly used for testing out PHP, MySQL (backend database) code and Apache, however that said it's a good thing to get used to as you'll be using some sort of web development platform in the future

[Steve7]

Thanks, bytejunkie, for video link. I know about HTML and JavaScript and want to develop blog site.

[aik6980]

I use WAMP for testing my website offline too, and yeah
everything related to your web will be in WAMP/WWW directory

pure HTML based web is the easiest thing you can start with.
then you could try CSS and JavaScript to make your web more dynamic

once you feel more comfortable, you could try out any CMS (Wordpress, Joomla etc.)

Enjoy Coding!

[yamangman]

If you're going to use AMP, I'd use vagrant and run it against a nix environment. IMHO why bother pairing it with windows? By all means make sure it's cross-platform, but if you're gonna deploy something simple like this eventually your best bet is nix. It'll be smaller, cheaper and probably easier.

[gl30]

Consider using a virtual machine running Linux for a "proper" development environment. It sounds daunting but you probably have Virtual PC already installed (with Windows 7/8) and all you need is a (free) Linux distro to install in it. Then install httpd/mysql/etc. and you can start developing as if you're actually aiming for a production environment.