XAMPP SERVER


What is XAMPP?

First of all XAMPP is an acronym and stands for:

X: “Cross” as in it’s mean to be read as cross-platform because it can run on many different operating systems which are Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

A: The Apache HTTP Server. This is the web server that is used to run the two programming languages it uses (we will get to these in a minute).

M: MySQL. This is a relational database management system that provides multi-user access to a number of databases.

P: PHP. A programming language for the creation of dynamic web pages (See my “PHP – Introduction and Example” thread for more information).

P: Perl. A high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution package consisting of the above features. It is a free web server capable of serving dynamic web pages.

There is little to no configuration that is needed of the various components and includes other such modules such as “OpenSSL” and “phpMyAdmin”.

XAMPP was intended as a development tool to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computer without any access to the internet. In practice, however, XAMPP is sometimes used to actually serve web pages on the World Wide Web. There is also support for creating and manipulating databases in MySQL.

Once XAMPP is installed you can use “localhost” like a remote host using an FTP client..

How to Install Xampp Server:

Click to Install the xampp Server

http://sawmac.com/xampp/
Zend Server is a commonly used WAMP bundle package for web server. First step will be downloading Zend CE Server.

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