A big hat tip today for The Urban Giraffe.
I’ve been running phpdev since I started using Wordpress on my website, and for the most part its provided me with a quick and dirty local version of Wordpress, but today, when I started working on a new theme for a new site, I managed to make an utter balls-up of my phpdev install. In the process, I completely jiggered my local Wordpress install and couldn’t untangle the mess I’d made.
A quick google search later, I found UrbanGiraffe » Installing WordPress on your own Windows computer, which has helped me solve almost all my problems.
Now I’m running WAMP5 on my local machine, and I have a couple of virtual servers running on my machine: one for this site, and one for the work in progress on the new site. WAMP5 does run PHP5, whereas my web-host is on some flavour of PHP4, but since 5 is the future, any problems that causes should be outweighed by future gains.
All is well with the world 