Comments on: Setting up WAMP for Zend Framework Projects

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:39:18 +0000

hi Ryan, thanks for ur article. It’s help some newbies like me a lot

By: Pranav

Pranav — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:04:38 +0000

Thanks for the quick response,
hope I can get in touch you if get stuck somewhere

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:33:59 +0000

Hi Pranav, the zend framework can reside in a specific site directory without affecting other sites. The steps I mentioned in the post actually general steps applying to any site you want to set up locally and only step 4 is relevant to zf.

So in answer to your question: yes you should use www/wamp/project, and yes you need custom paths for each site you want to set up. Hope it clears your doubts. In any case, the steps are totally reversible so don’t be afriad to go ahead and try it out =)

By: Pranav

Pranav — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:13:34 +0000

Hi again,
I have another doubt same as Frédérique’s.
My project is in the folder www/wamp/project, so should I use this path to enable zend framework for the “project”. Also what if I have more then one site to run with zend, should I create custom paths for all?
And what url should I use in the browser to access “project” to start using the framework.
And what url should I use when I wish to use wamp normally for projects without using the zend framework.

Do excuse my questions, if they seem silly. I am new to zend framework. I want to use it, but without disturbing my other projects which are already running under wamp, without the zend framework.
My email id is pranav6487@gmail.com, you can mail me the reply too

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:26:44 +0000

Hi Pranav, yes you can continue to use WAMP normally (with or without other frameworks) for other local sites.

By: Pranav

Pranav — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:40:03 +0000

Hi,
I am new to using Zend framework with WAMP. However before starting I had one doubt.
After installing zend framework with wamp, will I be able to use wamp without the framework for projects which do not require it?
Or is it that every new project will have to be used with Zend framework only after installation?

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:53:55 +0000

Frédérique, the document root should be the absolute path to the folder containing your website’s public files. e.g. is your index.php residing at “C:\My\Project\Path\public” ?

By: Frédérique

Frédérique — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:44:24 +0000

Hi there,

I wanted to install ioncube to locally test some softwares and since what I was doing did not work, I thought that maybe it was something to do with Zend not being activated in Wamp. I followed your instructions, step by step, but I have a question about the last step. You mention to change the info for our own stuff, and here I am at lost (I am a real beginer trying to make things work for me).

Can you please give me an actual example of what I should change the line below for?

ServerAdmin admin@customurl.localhost
DocumentRoot “C:\My\Project\Path\public”
ServerName customurl.localhost
ServerAlias customurl.localhost
ErrorLog “C:\My\Project\Path\logs\apache_error.log”
CustomLog “C:\My\Project\Path\logs\access.log” common

Should the “my” be replaced by “wamp” and then the name of the particular website I want have Zend activated for? What should “customurl” replaced for? The actual website name ? the folder’s name on wamp?

Other question: if I have more than one website that I want to test, do I have to create a virtual host for each?

I hope my questions will not bore you. I must say that I am navigating in a field that I really don’t master.

Thanks

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:31:12 +0000

Thanks Fernando, overlooked them back slashes and host file =)

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Hi Ryan, good tutorial. I have two comments to do.

1- If you are under windows, you have to put the paths with this “/” bar.

For example, in this lines:

DocumentRoot “c:\wamp\www”
ErrorLog “C:\wamp\logs\apache_error.log”
CustomLog “C:\wamp\logs\access.log” common

change it like this:

DocumentRoot “c:/wamp/www”
ErrorLog “C:/wamp/logs/apache_error.log”
CustomLog “C:/wamp/logs/access.log” common

Otherwise, the apache server won’t start.

2- For virtualhosts, apart of changing “httpd-vhosts.conf”, you have to set the hosts file of the OS.

Path -> C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

something like this:

127.0.0.1 customurl # customurl ZF project

See you,
Fernando.