Installing Vista and WAMP

1.  Insert DVD and reboot the system.

2.  Press any key to boot to DVD.

3.  Set time and time zone.

4.  Select Install Now.

5.  Enter your product key.

6.  Select new install.

7.  Delete older partitions.

8.  It will now begin the install. It took about an hour, but I did not have the recommended amount of RAM. It should go much faster for someone using 1 GB or more RAM.

9.  It will prompt you to create a user and username.

10. You now reboot to save settings.

11. Next we want to make our WAMP (Windows, Apache2, MySQL, and PHP) server.

12. You can find it at http://www.wampserver.com/en

13. Click on the "Download WAMP5 1.7.0" link and wait a few minutes as it downloads.

14. Double-click on the WAMP5 1.7.0 icon and "Run".

15. At the prompt from Vista, accept.

16. Click next and accept the license agreement. Click next again.

17. I accept the default location of c:\wamp

18. I also accept the default start menu shortcut of "Wampserver"

19. I choose to automatically launch WAMP5 upon starting Vista.

20. Click Install.

21. I accept default "www" folder for my DocumentRoot

22. I accept the default "localhost" to access my MyPHP

23. Changed the default admin email to myname@sampledomain.net

24. I select my default browser.

25. Select finish.

26. In order to start your WAMP server. Go to your start menu.

27. Select all programs.

28. Select Wampserver, then select start Wampserver

29. At Vista prompt, allow the program.

30. Bring up a browser and for the address enter "localhost"

You are now viewing your WAMP server!