How to have a free server on our Windows 10

Many users have repeatedly needed to change the version of Windows. In other words, they sometimes need server roles, other Windows Home roles, and other business roles.

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, we will need to have an http server installed, a database and a server programming language that can manage and execute orders and web applications.

The best http server is Apache server which is also free. The best or at least the most widely used server programming language is PHP which is also free and even though Microsoft and Windows 10 already have a powerful database, we can get another one as interesting and free as 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".

But you must be alert. MySQL, the database, needs us to enter a username and password. If the server is going to be 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 a server accessed by the IP address of the computer. If we want to use web pages or web files or applications, we all have to save them in the www subfolder inside the wamp folder of the root directory.