Thread: PHP on Windows with Apache

In Windows, if you want to run PHP over Apache, you have two choices. One is to download each individual component separately and install them one by one. This will obviously be a lengthy process, and will require manual configurations in Apache and PHP to integrate the three. You're likely to face several problems here. The other option is to download the WAMP server, which can easily be downloaded. Installing applications on Windows is no rocket science, and doesn't require you to run any commands as you did on Linux. Simply run the setup file, follow the onscreen instructions, and you're done. You can install it as a service that runs in the background or otherwise. Once the installation is over, it automatically starts the application and you have PHP with Apache and MySQL on Windows configured and running. They're already integrated, so you can straightaway get to developing your applications on the platform.