josephmouhanna

I am running AMPPS (ampps.com), which is Apache, PHP, MySQL, PhP, Python, Perl, etc. In my case, I am running it on a Windows environment.

GoogleDrive appears as a local drive. AMPPS installed in c:\Program Files (X86), but the Apache portion of AMPPS behaves just like an Apache installation on a Linux environment, i.e. I can multiple virtual hosts, and in this case, one of my virtual hosts is https://WordPress, and the document root for this virtual host is specified as c:\users\joseph\googledrive\projects\phpapps\wordpress

The only caveat here is that AMPPS insists on managing virtual hosts itself, so if you manually edit the files in config.d, it will change them for you. Minor issue, and not relevant to the issue I am dealing with.

I still don’t understand how WordPress ran the first time. I verified it, and it also created the database locally, added all the tables, I was able to install a theme, add a page, and write some add-on code that ran fine. After I restarted the machine, it gave me these error message, and when I looked at the config files, it was clear why these messages appeared, although it’s still not clear how it ran the first time around.

So, the question is: is there a Windows-only version of WordPress? One of Microsoft’s web sites has a WordPress install facility, but it wants to install something else in addition to WordPress. I am not sure what that is, and I don’t want it either.