Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Playing around with a webserver

If you haven't done it already, i strongly suggest playing around with some of the fun free webserver stuff out there. i've compiled a list of links to interesting places that might spark your interest in these things.

WAMP - A Website solution containing MySQL (community edition), PHP, Apache Webserver and lots more. No need to get gray hairs trying to get PHP to recognize the MySQL installation or to get both working in Apache, this solution does it for you.

phpBB - A quick and easily managed free Web Forum solution. Really neat, check out v3 with the sweet new prosilver theme.

MediaWiki.org - MediaWiki is the Wiki system that Wikipedia uses. Play around with your own Wiki and have lot's of fun.

There is no need to make a full blown serious website, just play around on your home LAN. Set up an internal web server for your house, family etc. Tons of potential and lots of fun playing around with.

2 comments:

AlexW said...

My favorite WAMP software is EasyInstaller (http://www.witsuite.com/product/installer/). With it you can install Apache, MySQL and PHP in just one click.

Enigma said...

Thanks for the tip Alex, I will definitely have to check it out.