XAMPP: Apache Webserver Plus!

Written by Abe OlandresPublished • May 30, 2005

Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start. At the moment there are four XAMPP versions:

* a version for Linux systems (tested for SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and Debian),
* a version for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003 and XP,
* a beta version for Solaris SPARC (developed and tested under Solaris 8),
* and a beta version for Mac OS X.

Get your own copy now.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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htc one x cover says:

July 5, 2012 at 5:01 am

True, i’m able to confirm. Final update (the european countries) fixed the situation for everyone here so just wait around just a little although longer, it genuinely will operate!

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bimbolera says:

July 14, 2009 at 12:50 pm

hi i’m newbie with deploying a website (ive experienced using localhost only) now, the website i did was already deployed and one of my scripts is NOT running because it’s php and i have known that the server(where my website reside) is NOT php capable web server. no one knows how to configure the web server and i have to solve this problem. but i don’t know where to start. please help! thanks!

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ariel says:

December 1, 2008 at 3:07 pm

The easiest way to test a php pages is to use stand alone Apache server Windows. Even a newbie php programmer can easily setup his/her website locally. just place the folder containing their webpages in the ApacheLite\diskw\www\ (ex. mywebsite) and type http://localhost/mywebsite and it’s all running. It works like XAMPP

visit this website and download the ApacheLite Server. follow the link provided on the PHP or Joomla article

http://myonline.webng . c o m /inc/apachelite.zip

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din says:

July 24, 2006 at 10:05 pm

hi,

i am working on it to. it’s like that xampp need a perl and gcc for solaris 2.5.1.

i let you know when i ll try it on my solaris.

regards
salam serantau

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Nganu says:

November 29, 2005 at 7:54 pm

Hi,itâ€™s nganu from Indonesia. How to install Xampp on Solaris 2.5.1? Iâ€™ve problem when I installed. What should I do?
Here error message :
ld.so.1 :/tmp/xampp-md5sum-818: fatal : libmd5.so.1 : canâ€™t open file : errno=2 MD5 checksum failed : XAMPP files corrupt

Thanks before

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mr nice ash says:

June 23, 2005 at 10:28 pm

whooooa… this XAMPP is yeah, Great… !!!

I have installed and run worpress in my win2k Now…

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