In a quick post today, Leendert Brouwer points out a tutorial that he'd created for setting up a WAMP installation.

The tutorial is just a text listing of the steps to set it all up, but it does a great job of covering what's needed.

This document explains how to set up a WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) development environment on a Windows XP/2k machine, without having all the clutter a package installer creates. I initially created this document for a few co-workers, I'm not a big fan of windows myself (if you are serious about developing, consider using *nix all the way, Win32 is inferior and not very flexible).

Anyway, maybe teaching people how to install PHP tools in an environment they feel home at can later persuade them to use a free operating system :) Beside that it's a piece of cake to translate the document to english, so why not share it. Here's the process in a number of easy steps.

A twenty-size step process sounds intimidating, but since it's broken up into all of the "baby steps" of the process, it's really not that much.