Why not use a WAMP stack?

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Published on 2012-11-29T21:58:31Z Indexed on 2012/11/29 23:08 UTC
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I recently had a talk with some experienced people and they suggested to me not to use a WAMP stack, and instead install apache, mysql and php separately.

I don't understand why they have suggested this, though, so can anyone tell me?

Is there a particular disadvantage of WAMP, or a particular advantage to installing all of them separately?

Since a WAMP stack itself is composed of apache, mysql and php, then what's the difference between using the WAMP stack and installing them all separately?

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