Chapter:2-Before Installation
Minimum Requirement of a system to run the WordPress
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We need a server to run the PHP script, because PHP is a server side script and WordPress is based on PHP.
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WAMP Server which is-Windows Apache MySQL PHP
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Any WAMP which has PHP 5.2.4 or above and MySQL 5.0 or above.
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Download WAMP from: http://www.wampserver.com
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Download Source code of WordPress from: http://wordpress.org/downloads
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Latest version of WordPress is wordpress-3.8.1 (as on 03-04-2014)
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Latest of WAMP is 2.2 having
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Apache 2.2.22
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Mysql 5.5.24
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PHP 5.3.13
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PhpMyadmin 3.4.10.1
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Apache is an open source web server , which is available in free. Apache is the one of the most popular and the most lovable web server by the web developers across the world.
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Separately we can download from: http://www.apache.org
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MySQL is the most preferred open source RDBMS .
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Very identical to MSSQL and other RDBMSs.
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PHP(PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server side scripting language having the features of OOPS and syntax similar to C Programming and Perl.
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PHP provide a rich library to manipulate data and make most of the complicated data operations easy.