XAMPP followup

October 7, 2006 | By Terry Stockdale | In Apache Web Server, PHP Scripting, Web Hosting 

In a followup to my earlier post, my XAMPP installation on my notebook is working quite well, at least the Apache and PHP portions. I haven’t yet configured MySQL, but there’s a walk-through on setting it up.

You can get the XAMPP web server package — for free — from ApacheFriends.org. It provides the Apache Web Server, the MySQL database and the Perl and PHP scripting languages — all in one easy-to-install package.

While the package probably could be used for a real Internet-accessable web site, I find that I’m most interested in it as a development tool. This way, I can prepare my sites or pages and then just pull them up from the server on my own computer — no uploading necessary.

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