#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART HOW TO#
#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART MANUAL#
#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART UPGRADE#
#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART CODE#

To check click the Windows “Start Button” > “Control Panel” > “Programs and Features” – this shows everything installed under Windows: I run Windows 7, didn’t like the look of Windows 10. Make sure you have the correct Visual C++ Packages installed, I was missing the 圆4 version required to run PHP 7.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART UPGRADE#

After the upgrade the server stopped working, so had to modify a few config files (didn’t document what I modified). I think I made a mistake, when updating I changed the directory to match my current directory “c:/wamp/” (it was going to be “c:/wamp64” – not sure if changing it was the right move?). If you run WAMPserver 2.5 x32 use the x32 file : I ran WAMPserver 2.5 圆4, so downloaded the 圆4 file :

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART HOW TO#

How to upgrade from WAMPserver 2.5 to WAMPserver 3.0.6 is described at: įirst step is upgrade to WAMPserver 3.0.3.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART MANUAL#

I bit the bullet and upgraded to WAMPserver version 3.0.6 (as expected I ran into issues, had to make manual edits) which resulted in having PHP 5 and PHP 7 in one program. WAMPserver is currently in version 3.0.6 (October 2016), but I’d not got around to upgrading it: upgrading servers always goes wrong. Based on looks like you can only run one PHP version per install. ** At the time of writing (October 2016) I’m running XAMPP Control Panel 3.2.2, my version of XAMPP is almost a year out of date. Note: XAMPP appears** not to have a multiple PHP version, so limited for development in multiple environments. In hindsight (after manually adding PHP 7.0.11) there’s a REALLY easy way to add extra versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL via WAMPserver 3 addons, you can find all the WAMPserver 3 addons at WAMPserver has the ability to run multiple versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP, but until now I’d not tried (hard) to get it to work. Time to find a better solution for testing. It was really annoying, so I had a tendency to develop only in WAMPserver and test in XAMPP near the end, and the live server at the very end.Ĭan mean if something messes up in an earlier/later version of PHP I might have made a few days worth of edits before realizing! To test a theme/plugin required switching between the two localhost Windows servers (can’t run them at the same time due to the port :80 conflict) including copying whatever PHP files had been modified. SKYPE runs under port :80 as well just to make things interesting :-). Problem was WAMPserver and XAMPP both run under Port :80.

#HOW TO USE WAMP SERVER TO HOST OPENCART CODE#

I’ve fixed these PHP 7.0.* notices in Stallion Responsive 8.5, but it required switching between WAMPserver 2.5 (running PHP 5) and XAMPP (running PHP 7) to check the code changes worked in PHP 5.* and PHP 7.* (a pain to manage!). It’s still valid code in PHP 7.0.*, but you get a PHP notice : basically warning you to fix it before they depreciate it. Perfectly valid PHP code in PHP 5.*, but PHP plans to depreciate the code in the future.

I need multiple server configurations (different PHP versions in particular) for making sure any WordPress theme development ( Stallion Responsive) and WordPress plugin development ( Stallion SEO Plugin and WordPress SEO Comments Plugin) works under most server environments: can’t test everything.įor example in PHP 7.0.*, Stallion Responsive 8.4 has some PHP notices about using functions and classes with the same name. So I had three versions of PHP, but had to run three ‘systems’ to access them! Why Use WAMPserver and/or XAMPP With Multiple PHP Versions?

WAMPserver 2.5 had Apache 2.4.* and PHP 5.5.* and XAMPP had Apache 2.4.* and PHP 7.0.* : also have a live server running Apache 2.2.* and PHP 5.3.*, the live server is well overdue an update. I’ve been using WAMPserver version 2.5 and XAMPP server 3.2.2 for localhost testing: WAMPserver and XAMPP are two ways to run an Apache server on a Windows PC for testing/development.

You might think after reading this I’m a web server expert, I’m far, far, far from a server expert, just happen to be very good at finding server tutorials written by others and following their instructions! Is it wrong to hate web server configurations?

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