In previous tutorial i’ve wrote about how to set up local web server with the help of EasyPHP. Now, in this tutorial I will show you how to work with it, accessing and managing it. First of all, if you haven’t installed your own web server yet visit this tutorial that I have made:
Setting up local web server
Okay, so if your web server is installed now you should launch it by doing these things:
Open the directory wheres your EasyPHP is installed. Mine is installed in
C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-5.3.2i
So, that’s the directory that i am going to open. Go ahead and open yours too!

This is how the directory should look like. What I mean should look like that you should have same files as the view it self can be different, based on the Windows version you are using and of the folder view type.
After you have EasyPHP directory open you should launch EasyPHP-5.3.2i.exe just by simply double clicking it. When you have double clicked the .exe file the EasyPHP program should launch it self and you will be able to see it in the bottom right of your screen. Just like this:

Do you see the “E” letter? If you do it means that EasyPHP has been launched. However if you don’t you should read this post from the beginning again, maybe you will find what you did wrong. Anyway, we should continue. Double click the “E” letter in the bottom of your screen, and you should see that new window has been opened

By the default EasyPHP should have services already started if it’s not, this is what you do:
Press the same, but a little bigger “E” letter inside a new opened window. A new, little window should open inside the window select the “Start” and mouse click it or you can simply press F2 to start it. You should notice that new text appeared in window, which looks something like this:
27/06 10:24:38 EasyPHP: Servers starting
It means that EasyPHP servers has been set to start. Just wait a moment and it should be started fully. You will notice that the two light things turn in green light, showing that EasyPHP has been started successfully. Now you have MySQL, PHP and Apache servers successfully started, giving you all the abilities your own web server needs. Now, I will show you where you should put your web files and how to access phpMyAdmin. In order to manage your web files you should open the same directory of EasyPHP, mine is:
C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-5.3.2i
But now, this is what you do. Inside the EasyPHP folder you should see another folder named “www”. Open it!
As you see, this folder is empty, because there is no files in your web server yet. Here is where you put all of your web files, nowhere else, just here! After you have files in this folder you can access them by typing this address in your browser:
127.0.0.1
Do not enter www. before the address, because it will not work. However, you can enter HTTP:// before the address, it will work in this way.
Okay, so a new page should be opened. Here, i will show you how to get into phpMyAdmin, to access MySQL. In the new opened page search for a little house icon in the top of the screen and press it. You should be taken to another page. There a few choices in this page, like:
- Manage MySQL
- MySQL Parameters
- PHP Parameters
- Time Zone
- Extensions
If you want to get to phpMyAdmin, you should press “Manage MySQL” and you will be taken to a phpMyAdmin. There you can manage MySQL databases, MySQL users and much more. Google phpMyAdmin for more information about it.
That’s all for this tutorial. If you have any problems or want to ask something, feel free to do so!