Test Environments on Windows?

**wizer** · 8th December 2008

Hi

I have been tasked with setting a website for someone and I'm just re-familiarising myself with the world of webdev after being out of the game for a good 5-6yrs.

I'm sure there used to be a program for windows that replicated an Apache/Linux/Cpanel environment for testing a whole site on my local PC? Anyone know what I'm talking about?

TIA

**beerman** · 8th December 2008

Vmware

**BBK** · 8th December 2008

Why emulate when you can run the real thing locally anyway? OK, so not linux, but you can certainly setup apache and a cpanel instance locally. Check http://www.wampserver.com/en/, its what I use now all the time - but then I'm pretty much exclusively php.

**wizer** · 9th December 2008

Thanks

With this WAMPServer, how can I install cPanel? It's not a free is? In fact how do I install anything (Drupal, etc)

**BBK** · 9th December 2008

Originally Posted by wizer

Thanks

With this WAMPServer, how can I install cPanel? It's not a free is? In fact how do I install anything (Drupal, etc)

Sorry, I don't have a cpanel instance I can share, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to source. However, setting up wamp to run drupal would simply be a matter of downloading drupal and running the install using the http://localhost address rather than your usual http://www server address.

**wizer** · 9th December 2008

cheers, have you ever come across a tutorial for this stuff? I managed to get drupal installed but it wont send emails.

I'll do some googling. Thanks