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 
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I’m looking for something very like this but designed to run from a CD, so the idea would be that it doesn’t leave services installed on your computer, but still has MySQL and PHP. Any ideas?
Not off the top of my head, sadly.
Can you insert a CD, then launch and run services, and get rid of all trace of them when you’re finished?