How to have a free server in our Windows 10

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En repetidas oportunidades, muchos usuarios han necesitado cambiar la versión de Windows. Dicho de otra forma, a veces necesitan roles de server, otros roles de Windows Home y otros roles comerciales.

This in many cases is solved by buying or acquiring the most complete version of Windows and paying a large sum of money for these licenses. However there is a free way to have many of these features. And in the case of needing a server, the answer is very simple.

Windows 10 can be turned into a free server thanks to Wamp Server

Have a server in our Windows 10 or rather transform it, necesitaremos tener instalado un servidor http, una base de datos y un programming language de servidor que puede administrar y ejecutar pedidos y aplicaciones Web.

The best http server is Server Apache que además es gratuito. El mejor o al menos el lenguaje de programming de servidor más usado es PHP which is also free and even though Microsoft and Windows 10 already have a powerful database, we can obtener otro tan interesante y gratuito como MySQL.

In these cases, it is better get everything using a program called Wamp Server. Wamp Server is a program that installs all of the above and at the same time configures it on our PC without having to do anything. To have it, we must first download it from here and then run the installation wizard which is of the type "next".

Pero debes de estar alerta. MySQL, la base de datos, necesita que ingresemos un nombre de Username y contraseña. Si el servidor va a ser home environment, it is better not to put a username or password so that the standard user named root creates us. But if we are going to make it public, it is better to create a username and password.

Once created, something like this will appear in the notification bar:

This icon is the control center, from there we can manage and activate all the technologies that our server will have. Now when the server is on, our computer will work as such, as un servidor al que se accede mediante la IP adress de la computadora. If we want to use web pages or web files or applications, we all have to guárdelos en la subcarpeta www dentro de la carpeta wamp del root directory.

With this we will have a server running on our Windows, a free server that we will be able to use for basic tasks or basically to develop web pages.