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Setting up WordPress site on WAMP by independently installing its components on Windows Systems

When you download and install a WAMP server on Windows you get all of its components Apache Tomcat Server which acts as Web Server service MySQL which acts as backend database Php which acts as the development programming language   It’s a single installer that takes care of all of these components installation. Configuring WAMP is very straight forward as detailed in Instaling WordPress on WAMP. However, the downside with WAMP is, you get a pre-defined version of the components bundled together.  What if there is a newer version of Php which you’d like to have setup? Or if you’d […]

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Web Technologies

Installing Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop

Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop   Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop enables the creation of desktop apps in C#, Visual Basic, and C++, and supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Win32. You can download it from http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs  Follow install screen options as shown below:   Download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. < p>

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DataBase, Server, Web Technologies

Recovering MySQL DataBases on AWS instance after an unexpected server crash and without backups

Its possible that an AWS instance can run into various issues of unexpected crashes or can even be a case where you lost connectivity to your instance possibly due to network/firewall issue at AWS level or within your instance.  In either of these cases, you’d have no choice than to re-configure your solution on a new instances.  However, you will not have even an option to backup your MySQL DB that is running on the instance that is inaccessible. If you have planned good and configured your WAMP solution in a way that MySQL DB Data files are relocated to […]

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