As you technology is developing at a rapid pace and that includes php. So it is very difficult for Lynda.com to redo their videos whenever there is a slight change. A rule of thumb when installing software is: when in doubt choose yes. Below are the steps to install WAMP but that was yesterday, tomorrow may be different.

Anyway the first step is to double click on the icon and the following screen should appear. If you don’t know where the icon is you can check the previous post and be more careful where you download it to.

Of course you should press next and in the following page you can use the default folder as below but I follower Lynda.com’s lead and created a program_files folder in the c: directory and installed there. Notice the underscore in program_files. Don’t mistake it for the already existing program files folder.

Press next and next.

Check auto start and press next.

Press install.

Choose the www folder which will have been created.

Leave it as localhost and press next.

Choose an appropriate email and, yes, you guessed it, press next.

Around here it differs from the video but this is where my years of pc experience came in handy. I somehow just new instinctively that I ought to press next.

You will notice that it detected firefox because that is my browser of choice and it should be yours too.

Uncheck “Launch WAMP5 now”and then press finish.

Yeah, we’re done. At least partly anyway. There is still some php plugin afffair. I will get to that later though.