XAMPP is a free, cross-platform web server, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
Requirements and features
XAMPP only requires one zip, tar or exe file to be downloaded and run, and little or no configuration of the various components that make up the web server is required. XAMPP is regularly updated to incorporate the latest releases of Apache/MySQL/PHP and Perl. It also comes with a number of other modules including OpenSSL and phpMyAdmin.
Because its user interface is considered simple to use it is sometimes called the “lazy man’s WAMP/LAMP installation.”
Installing XAMPP takes less time than installing every installation contained in the package as a separate install.
The result is self-contained, multiple instances can exist on a computer, and a given instance can be copied from one computer to another.
It is offered in both a full, standard version and a smaller version (known as XAMPP Lite). Add-on extension modules are also available.
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