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My wamp server is not showing the forma files I downloaded. How can I see them? What web server should I be using?

Thanks. Javar

Hi Javar,

welcome to the community. I copy & paste from Forma "readme.txt" file

2. REQUIREMENTS

Server specs: Linux, Windows, MacOs, Unix, Sun with
- Apache 2.0.x or above
- PHP 5.2.x or 5.3.x 5.4.x ( 5.5.x and 5.6.x in beta status)
- Mysql 5.0 or higher with transaction support
- Doesn't matter if safe mode or register global are on or off
- If you need to test on your windows home pc we suggest easyphp, wamp or xampp



3. INSTALL PROCEDURE

- Be sure you have your database parameters (host, user, password, dbname) available
- Be sure you have your ftp parameters (host, user, password), if you want use FTP upload
- Before install, create the database on your dbserver (you can use a db admin tool as phpmyadmin)
- If you are on your home pc with your easyphp/wamp/xampp create a database through
http://localhost/mysql/ or http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
- Upload all the files in your root directory or a subfolder
- Launch http://www.yoursite.com/install/
- Follow installation instructions

Note:
At the end step of install procedure, the system will load XML file languages,
Depending on number of languagse chosen, this operation can take some time in order to complete