Ever wanted a complete, fast, easy-to-use web server that you could put anywhere and run from anything? Welcome to WNMP - the portable Windows/Nginx/MySQL/PHP server. Just download the required packages (selecting which versions you want) and your ready to roll! No installation, no fuss.
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Download the "no-install" zip archive of the PHP version you wish to use and place it in the PHP directory. Make sure to create a "php.ini" file! Recommended: PHP Non-Thread-Safe version, use php-development.ini provided to get started.
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Download the windows port of memcached and place it in the "memcached" folder. Version 1.4.5 is the latest memcached version for windows I've found.
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Download the Nginx webserver and place it in the "nginx" folder".
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Download the "no-install" mysql server zip and place it in the "mysql" folder.
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phpMyAdmin makes managing MySQL databases easy. Download the phpMyAdmin files and place it in www/phpmyadmin/ (requires PHP to be installed!).
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install.exe Installation Script
Newly built install script can facilitate in installation of all necessary components. It is a very rough version that doesn't tell you much of anything and might break when new versions are released. But don't let that scare you.
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Latest Versions
The script should pull the latest versions of Nginx, PHP, MySQL and Memcached (windows binary). If you have issues let me know.
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Usage: Similar to the server file, use one of the same argument switches to keep from installing something. For instance,
install -mwill install everything but MySQL.
After each package has been placed in the correct folder then run the serve.exe with the following options:
Usage: server.exe [serve|stop|restart] OPTIONS
serve Starts the server and daemons
stop Stops server and all daemons
restart Restarts the server. Does not start daemons previously
not run using arguments below.
Arguments (OPTIONS):
-p Do not run PHP (ensure nginx.conf is configured properly)
-m Do not run MySQL
-c Do not run Memcache daemon
-n Do not start Nginx (but why?)
server.exe serve -mc
server.exe serve -p
server.exe stop
There are 3 .vbs files you can use as "Window's Shortcuts". start.vbs defaults to a full run, so PHP, MySQL, Nginx and Memcached must be available. stop.vbs and restart.vbs do not depend on full install. These allow you to not have to open a cmd window just to start/stop/restart the server. Double click these from Windows Explorer and you'll be off and running.
After downloading nginx you must make sure to enable PHP in the nginx.conf file and you must also make sure to set the correct root so that nginx knows where to find your web files. Please see the example.nginx.conf file included. We recommend that you use the included "www" folder as the web root (rather than the default of nginx/html/) since you might want to update nginx at a later date.
Make sure to enabled your required PHP modules by editing the php.ini file. You might also need to set the "extension_dir" param to "ext" to make sure php looks in the right places for the DLL files!
Make sure to create a my.ini file in the mysql folder. It is important that you setup MySQL to handle UTF-8. Please see (or just use) the example.my.ini file for recommended values.
This program loads memcached using only 10MB of RAM by default. If you need more, start memcached separately:
start /B memcached\memcached.exe -m 10 -c 1024
server serve -c
Will work on a way to integrate the options for this in the server file, but right now it's not allowed.
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Version: 0.12