How to host a website locally in your own pc by using WAMP?
There are two most porpular ways one can use to host a website locally one is XAMPP and the other is WAMP. WAMP is an acronym that stands for “Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP”. When you download a WAMP, you are just downloading a program that installs three different things. Apache – This is the program that is used to actually host your website. With it alone, you can host HTML files and other static web content. MySQL – This provides a database for your web content. A lot of dynamic web pages need to store data (i.e. usernames and password for web accounts), which is where MySQL comes in. PHP – The most popular language for writing dynamic web content – by far. WordPress, Facebook, Joomla, and many other websites and content management systems utilize PHP. If you plan to host anything more than static web pages, PHP will be an essential companion. Windows – The “W” in WAMP is just th...
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