[WAPP] Discontinued?

[wagwan-piffting-blud]

What happened to the WAPP offering on the Bitnami website? It appears the page is now gone with a generic notice saying the offering was discontinued, but I cannot seem to find a reason why. My PHP application for Windows users relied on it, and I am afraid to host the installer elsewhere for fear of receiving a takedown due to it being partially proprietary.

Overall, my main questions are:

1. Would I be able to host the installer elsewhere without fear of a takedown notice?
2. Why was WAPP discontinued so suddenly and without prior notice?
3. Will there be/are there any kind of alternatives available aside from XAMPP (which does not include Postgres, the main reason I used WAPP instead)?

Thanks.

Wags

[oneill2john]

Yeah, I'm using WAMP too for my projects. I was planning to upgrade my current WAMP installation and just found out that it is no longer available ...

It was a shock and disappointment.

[gongomgra]

Hi @wagwan-piffting-blud, @oneill2john,

Yes, we stopped our offering for local installers in all Operating System (Linux, Windows, and OS X) in favor of our virtual machines, containers and cloud images offering. We also published a notice about the installers deprecation under the asset's pages since the blogpost below was published on November last year.

https://blog.bitnami.com/2022/11/focusing-on-cloud-native-solutions.html

We highly recommend you to continue using our virtual-machines on Windows, where you can get the latest version of the included components and the most recent security issues solved from the official Operating System repositories.

[oneill2john]

@wagwan-piffting-blud ; I have found an excellent replacement for WAMP.
It is called Laragon: https://laragon.org/

With it you can easily add any PHP version, any Apache version, any MariaDB (or MYSQL) version. And you can switch to any version with just a mouse click.
I have been playing with it for the last few days and I'm very satisfied with what it can offer. I will probably migrate all my projects from WAMP to Laragon.

[gongomgra]

Hi @oneill2john,

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm moving the ticket back to pending column.

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