Migrating Wamp (Wamp 2.5 64bit on Windows 7 64bit)

TheSmithy Web Development

On old machine:

  1. Export mysql databases
  2. backup the aliases folder in apache
  3. screenshot of installed modules

On new machine

    1. To make Wamp 2.5 work, you will have to have a lot of Visual ++ packages installed. See this guide.You should end up with this list of installed packages (yes, x86 packages should be installed too)visualc++packages_screenshot
    2. Install Wamp
    3. Create databases and import sql dumps
    4. Copy backed up aliases to aliases folder
    5. In case of a 403 error:
      Edit httpd.conf and add this (for example after the part with <Directory “d:/wamp/www/”>):

      &lt;Directory "d:/webdev/projects/"&gt;;
  AllowOverride none
  Require all granted
    6. Don’t forget to enable the apache module rewrite_module