Enter WampServer, an open source product that installs a PHP-apps-ready platform consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, plus several helpful GUI-based utilities.

WAMP is a software stack consisting of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. First, you will have to install WAMP on Windows . In that link, you can also find how to install WordPress on localhost on WAMP.

In addition to the usual *AMP stack components — Apache, PHP, and MySQL — WampServer includes only maintenance (phpMyAdmin, SQLBuddy) and debugging (XDebug) functions. Perl isn’t included.