Quick Link: Local Web Servers
When it comes to hosting PHP on a local machine, there are almost as many options for making it happen as there are reasons for doing so. Perhaps you’d like to run an available PHP-based app for personal use, or you’d like to develop your own website and test it locally before deploying it live, or you want to host a PHP-based application as groupware on a local intranet (e.g. a group-calendar or a wiki).
The easiest way to get started in the world of PHP is to get yourself a pre-packed “LAMP” or “WAMP” stack (LAMP for Linux, WAMP for Windows). We’ve written about some of these in the past. (See links, below.) Well, the folks at DownloadSquad (www.downloadsquad.com) have two more suggestions for you. Check out their reviews of WAMP5 and EasyPHP (LAMP).
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vcnickels wrote:
You know, I’ve been wondering how to do this. I can write X/HTML fairly well as well as CSS but PHP boggles me sometimes. OK, most times, and I’ve been thinking about setting up a “proper” test bed for this very sort of thing.
Thanks for the tip Craig
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 7:58 am ¶
malatestapunk wrote:
I’d recommend taking a look at XAMPP project instead (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html). It includes both PHP4 and 5 (with an easy to use switch script), has service support and administration panel, comes with ftp server, mail server, both SQLite and MySQL, and phpMyAdmin.
Posted 21 Jun 2007 at 12:13 am ¶
Daniel wrote:
I agree with malatestapunk. XAMPP is extremely easy to setup and use. It is my recommendation too.
Posted 15 Jul 2007 at 4:54 pm ¶