Setting up Windows 7 for LAMP development

Question

I'm a .Net guy who has just been handed a LAMP-based project (where P=PHP), without a 'no' option. I am going to have to build this on a Windows 7(64) machine, but it is targeted for a pure LAMP platform.

I am not too worried about PHP or mySQL, I have enough to get by but Linux and Apache may as well be NASA's Curiosity platform.

In the production environment I am going to rely mostly on the Host to configure L and A with the hope that I can pretty much synch up my M and P files, figure out how to do a little app-specific config and go. Perhaps optimistic but I'll start there ;-)

For now the questions are

• what is the most trouble-free way to set up LAMP development on a W7 machine with a view to a relatively trouble-free move to production?

• any reasonable way to do it without giving up my Visual Studio security blanket?

• any suggestions for a walk-through somewhere online?

Thanks!

Answer 1

•what is the most trouble-free way to set up LAMP development on a W7 machine with a view to a relatively trouble-free move to production?

Both of these are able to provide you the windows7 LAMP and LAMPP(php/perl) environment.

    http://www.ampps.com/
or
    http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Both are simple to use and should make your migration of code over to prod simple.