WAMP

For a comparison of different WAMP packages, see comparison of WAMPs. For other uses, see WAMP (disambiguation).

WAMPs are packages of independently created programs installed on computers that use a Microsoft Windows operating system.

WAMP (computing) is an acronym formed from the initials of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the principal components of the package: Apache, MySQL and one of PHP, Perl or Python. Apache is a web server. MySQL is an open-source database. PHP, Perl and Python are scripting languages that can manipulate information held in a database and generate web pages dynamically each time content is requested by a browser. Other programs may also be included in a package, such as phpMyAdmin which provides a graphical user interface for the MySQL database manager.

Lists, variants, and equivalents on other platforms

• Comparison of WAMPs
• MAMP: for the Mac OS operating system
• LAMP: for the Linux operating system
• WIMP: A similar package where the Apache is replaced by Internet Information Services (IIS)

See also

• Solution stack
• List of AMP packages
• List of web application frameworks

External links

• WampServer Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP