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Installation and Setup

Getting Started with Wampoon

Section titled “Getting Started with Wampoon”

Welcome to Wampoon! This guide will help you get started with the Wampoon local development stack.

Installing Wampoon

Section titled “Installing Wampoon”

Wampoon can be installed in two different ways, depending on your preference:

1. Using the Wampoon Installer

Section titled “1. Using the Wampoon Installer”

This option provides a guided setup process.

  1. Download the latest installer archive at:

Wampoon-Installer.zip
  1. Extract the contents of the ZIP file to a local folder.
  2. Run Wampoon-Installer.exe to launch the installer and follow the instructions.
Section titled “2. Using the Wampoon Portable Bundle (Recommended)”

This is the recommended option for most users as it was tested and works out of the box on all Windows versions.

This option gives you a preconfigured, portable Wampoon environment that runs without installation.

  1. Download the portable archive at:

Wampoon-portable-1.0.0.zip
  1. Extract the contents to a folder of your choice.
  2. That is it! Now you can run WampoonControl.exe to start using Wampoon.

The portable bundle comes preconfigured with the following components:

  • Apache HTTP Server — 2.4.65.0
  • MariaDB Server — 11.8.3.0
  • PHP Runtime — 8.4.10.0
  • phpMyAdmin — 5.2.2.0
  • wampoon-dashboard — latest
  • Wampoon Control Panel — latest
  • Xdebug — 3.4.5.0
  • Composer — 2.8.10.0
  • Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime — 14.0.0.0
  • browscap — latest