WAMP

For other uses, see WAMP (disambiguation).

For a comparison of different WAMP packages, see comparison of WAMPs.

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

WAMP 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 is a scripting language 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, or the alternative scripting languages Python or Perl. Equivalent packages are MAMP (for the Apple Mac) and LAMP (for the Linux operating system).

Variants and equivalents on other platforms

Main article: List of AMP packages

See also: List of web application frameworks

See also

• Solution stack
• Comparison of WAMPs
• EasyPHP (Windows Apache Mysql Php package WAMP ) - Since 1999 - The first WAMP package
• WIMP: A similar package where the Apache is replaced by Internet Information Services (IIS)
• How to Setup Apache, PHP, MySQL, and More on Windows