just double checking on my next move (1 reply)

Greetings:

I've just recently acquired and installed Windows 10 Pro x64, installed WAMP 2.5 x32 and was happy to see a green icon!

Not looking a gift horse in the mouth I installed my WordPress 4.7.3 website (version at the time I used Duplicator to copy it) and it didn't work. It hangs on an error reported on line 15 of my index.php file.

Now I read that when running x64 Windows I need to install install all of the run-time libraries (VC9 - VC14) in BOTH x32 and x64 executables.

Previously I didn't understand that I needed both x32 and x64 VC distributables when running x64 Windows 10. Do I understand that correctly?

Ultimately I hope that doing so may correct the problem encountered above.

Also I see that installing the wampserver 3.0.8 update is strongly advised. I
see too that it will install newer versions of Apace, PHP and MySql but won't activate them. I definitely want that because I don't want any problems running the database created in the original WAMP 2.5 x32 install.

Would this be a sound strategy to follow or no? I would like to apply the update but it isn't absolutely necessary, getting the site to run is.


Adieu,

Dave