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nschamb1
nschamb1

Reputation: 19

I have a windows pc, can I develop with LAMP?

I have a pc running windows but I want to use a linux server. Is there a way for me to develop my website on my computer before I rent space on a server? Also its probably important to note that I have no linux experience. Should I just stick with wamp?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1228

Answers (4)

mawburn
mawburn

Reputation: 2336

Unless you specifically and purposely use .NET features in your PHP Application, then an application developed in WAMP will work fine on a LAMP Server as long as you have included all the same PHP plugins.

PHP is independent from Linux or Windows. 99.9% of the time you have to knowingly use features from the host OS.

Upvotes: 2

CodeExpress
CodeExpress

Reputation: 2232

Yes. I have developed and maintained a website like this before. My development environment was WAMP and the server was a LAMP shared server. Shouldn't be a problem till your site is using fairly basic libraries and they are available both for windows/linux.

However as others mentioned, its wiser to have the development environment as close possible to the production environment. You don't hit any surprises that way. And hey its not difficult and involves no cost:

  • You can use dual boot to have linux as other operating system.
  • Depending on your machine, you can just install VirtualBox and install a Linux VM.

Upvotes: 0

quantum
quantum

Reputation: 3830

For best performance, use coLinux. Install a linux distro like ubuntu (easier for beginners) and you should be ok.

Upvotes: 0

tommyo
tommyo

Reputation: 551

You should try ubuntu in a virtualbox, there are lots of well written guides that'll get you up and running.

Upvotes: 0

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