Create an Installer package for Installation on WAMP

Question

I have developed a PHP web application, now I am thinking about deploying it on Windows.

To ease my deployment, I plan to create an installer for it. This installer should do the following:

1. Check for Pre-requisites such as Apache, MySQL etc, install them if they are not available
2. Put the PHP application on Application folder, and in this process set the port number, create a conf file for the application, update the httpd.conf to make sure that it refers to the application-specific conf file.
3. Run database setup script and database population script that I prepared.
4. Set the database setting in the application config files so that they are pointing at the correct database.

I am looking for a installer to help me on this regard, something like Advanced Installer. Of course, I still have to write a lot of custom actions code for it, which is something I really hate.My question now is that is there anyone who has done all these stuffs and are willing to share his code, so that I don't have to do everything from scratch?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for this http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/. Bitrock is used by a few big projects like SugarCRM, etc to get their LAMP stack on other computers. Give it a try!

Answer 2

You could try movAmp. This will pack your application to one working executable, including apache/php/mysql.
Your application therefore should be aware if it is installed or not, say redirect to an install-script on first hit.

Movamp is an environment of development to be taken.

MovAMP was conceived to hold on a key USB or any other support of weak capacity. Connect it up in a computer equipped with Microsoft Windows and you have access to a server web,a database and INTERPRETER PHP. If MovAMP succeeds in contenting himself of not much of space, he can offer also installed on a workstation.

Comparable in EasyPhp or WAMP5, MovAMP inserts APACHE 2.0.54, MYSQL 4.1.12, PHP 5.0.4 and phpMyAdmin 2.6.2-pl1. Exits of the development of free software, these technologies proved their fastness and their stability.

Once thrown, he adds an icon to the zone of notification allowing to stop the server Apache and MySQL or to achieve the reception of the site or in phpMyAdmin.

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