Installing the Wamp Server

1. Click the http://www.wampserver.com/en/ link to install WAMP server for the Windows operating system.
   
   

2. After installing the WAMP server, right-click the WAMPServer icon from the Start menu and click Run as administrator to start the servers.
   
   
   Figure 1: Starting the Wamp server
   

Creating a database in the database server

1. In the httpd.cnf file, provide the IP address and the corresponding Port number of the system where the Web Server is running.
   
   
   Figure 3: Setting the IP Address and Port number of the webserver machine
   
   

2.  Open the WAMP database portal by one of the following ways:
   
   

   1. Use the URL in the following format:

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      http://<IPAddress>:<PortNumber>/phpmyadmin/

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       http://192.168.2.33:8080/phpmyadmin/

   2. Click the WAMP icon present in the taskbar and click the phpMyAdmin option and then edit the IP address and Port number as above.
      
      
      Figure 4: The phpMyAdmin option to open the URL
      
      
3. Provide the default Username "root" and click Go.
   
   
   Figure 5: Logging on to the PHP database
   
   

4. Click the Databases tab, provide a database name in the Create database field and click Create.
   
   
   Figure 6: Creating a Developer Portal Drupal database
   
   The database that is created appears in the left navigation pane.
   
   
   Figure 7: Newly created Developer Portal Drupal database