A quick how to on setting up your own portable sandbox to text your web projects, or text your site on a test zone, either you are on the move, or safe at home. This post is about setting up a WAMP scenario on a USB pen, or an external storage device more in general.

Let's say you are frequently travelling, or maybe you are a freelance web developer and have a lot of meeting with clients and want your work with you without the need to bring your laptop together. Or you want a simple test zone to play with your blog, or web site, but you are running on Windows and your web pages need a MySQL database and an Apache server to run. Whatever the case, this quick step-by-step guide will help you to run you own WAMP scenario on a portable device like a USB pen.

What you need to build a WAMP scenario on a USB pen

In this post we are presuming you'll have a USB storage device to work with, nevertheless it should be quite easy to replicate the process no matter the device you would use. The main goal of this guide is to have a portable WAMP system, if you prefer this same scenario could be set up on your pc hard disk quite easily.