BitNami Automates The Installation Of PHP / MySQL Applications On Windows
For testing or offline development purposes, the BitNami Application Stacks provide practical tools to automatically deploy open source PHP / MySQL based applications on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or Solaris operating systems. BitNami Stacks are standalone software packages containing the needed support to run in an independent way blogs, wikis, forums or other open source content management systems built with PHP scripting language and back-ended by a MySQL database.
The BitNami Stack installer will automatically configure the open source PHP/MySQL application, an Apache web server, the MySQL database connection details, PHP and the widely used MySQL DB manager, phpMyAdmin. The BitNami installer will not affect the existing operating system libraries or the installed software.
In order to automatically deploy the desired PHP / MySQL open source application, like WordPress, MediaWiki or Joomla!, you will just have to download and run the BitNami Application Stack compatible with your own operating system.
For example, in case of WordPress installation on a Windows operating system, you just have to provide only the administrator name and password, as well as your real name. Is recommended to disable the services associated with previously installed versions of Apache and MySQL, otherwise you could get errors during the installation process.
There are many advantages of using BitNami stacks both for beginners, as well as advanced webmasters: the open source PHP / MySQL based applications run natively on your operating system, without the need of a virtual machine. The time needed to deploy a testing or development environment associated with PHP / MySQL scripts and applications is dramatically reduced, as compared with the situation when a manual installation would be performed.
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