----------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlDesk with WAMP Server 2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Install ActiveState Perl (version 5.8 recomended) into default directory C:\Perl\ 2) Install WAMP Server 2.0 into default directory C:\wamp\ 3) Install required and optional modules (see Modules.txt) 4) Extract perldesk.zip files into C:\wamp\apps\. Your should have 4 subdirectories now: C:\wamp\apps\perldesk\backup C:\wamp\apps\perldesk\cgi-bin C:\wamp\apps\perldesk\docs C:\wamp\apps\perldesk\images 5) Copy docs/perldesk-wamps.conf to perldesk.conf and place into C:\wamp\aliases\ directory. Review and edit if necessary. 6) Launch WAMP server 7) Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/ and create database 'perldesk'. Default database charset UTF8 strongly recomended for multi-lingual support. 8) Copy conf.cgi.dist to conf.cgi in C:\wamp\apps\perldesk\cgi-bin\include. Edit DB access info ($dbhost, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpass) if necessary. 9) Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1/perldesk/install.cgi and follow install procedure.