Portable WEMP/WNMP

I am a big fan of portable applications. I love them the way they are instantly usable in different computers. As I am trying my hands on web development, I use XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP all those make use of Apache webserver, MySQL and PHP. I read that http://www.wordpress.com is serving the service with nginx server and I want to try it, if possible in portable way.

And I found the Xeoncross’s WNMP (Windos, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). Here are the steps I took to install wordpress on Windows 7.

Get the files

Download only the compressed files which do not require installation to use the programs

1. get the Xeoncross’ WNMP (Xeoncross-wnmp-v1.0.0-0-g9c1d833.tar.gz)
2. get memcached (memcached-1.2.6-win32-bin.zip)
3. get MySQL (mysql-5.5.11-win.zip)
4. get nginx (nginx-1.0.0.zip)
5. get PHP (php-5.3.6-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip)
6. get phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-all-languages.tar.gz)
7. get wordpress (3.1.1.tar.gz)

Place the files

1. extract the content of WNMP to d:\wemp\
2. extract the memcached.exe to d:\wemp\memcached\
3. extract the contents of MySQL to d:\wemp\MySQL\
4. extract the contents of nginx to d:\wemp\nginx\
5. extract the content of PHP to d:\wemp\PHP\
6. extract the content of phpMyAmdin to d:\wemp\www\phpMyAdmin\
7. extract the content of wordpress to d:\wemp\www\wordpress\

Configure

1. for MySQL, rename d:\wemp\MySQL\my-small.ini to my.ini
2. for NginX, copy d:\wemp\example.nginx.conf to d:\wemp\nginx\conf\, rename nginx.conf to nginx.conf.bak and rename example.nginx.conf to nginx.conf
3. for PHP, rename d:\wemp\PHP\php.ini - development to php.ini
4. open the php.ini file in a text editor, remove the ; preceeding extension_dir = "ext"
5. remove the ; preceeding cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
6. remove the ; preceeding extension=php_mbstring.dll
7. remove the ; preceeding extension=php_mysql.dll, save the file

Run

1. run d:\wemp\start_server.bat to start running, a few command prompt windows will pop up and disappear

Confirm they are running

1. open task manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc
2. check php-cgi.exe, memcached.exe, mysqld.exe, nginx.exe are running
3. run the following command in command prompt to change the root password of MySQL
   d:\wemp\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u root password hereIsYourPassword!
4. I had problem starting mysqld.exe and I looked the error in d:\wemp\mysql\data\err.log

Test the server and install wodpress

1. start a browser (make sure there is no proxy)
2. visit http://localhost/
3. see the WNMP success page
4. visit http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/
5. log in with username root, password hereIsYourPassword!
6. create a database with the name wordpress
7. visit http://localhost/wordpress/
8. start the famous 5 mins installation of wordpress

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