Web development work should always be done locally. When developing a website, all the development work should be done on a local LAMP Stack environment installed on your computer. That way, the production time is greatly reduced and you can fully test your work before launching. When you are completely done developing your project, the migration to the live server is seamless. Here are the simple steps to install a local server on your PC to easily develop websites.This article applies to the installation on Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista, of Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.
Installing XAMPP on your computer 1. First, download XAMPP for Windows Installer
2. Then run the installer on your computer and make sure that your Windows firewall unblocks Apache.
3. Run the Apache administrator.
4. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1 – If all went well, a screen will appear where you can choose your language.
5. Go to http://127.0.0.1/security/xamppsecurity.php and setup a password (it ill be used for your databases), and click on “Password Changing”. Congratulations! You’re done! Now put your website’s files in a new directory under C:\xampp\htdocs\ (if you installed xampp in C:\xampp). For example: C:\xampp\htdocs\myproject\; and setup your databases using PHPMyAdmin located here http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/. Configuring Mod RewriteRead more: Richard Castera
Installing XAMPP on your computer 1. First, download XAMPP for Windows Installer
2. Then run the installer on your computer and make sure that your Windows firewall unblocks Apache.
3. Run the Apache administrator.
4. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1 – If all went well, a screen will appear where you can choose your language.
5. Go to http://127.0.0.1/security/xamppsecurity.php and setup a password (it ill be used for your databases), and click on “Password Changing”. Congratulations! You’re done! Now put your website’s files in a new directory under C:\xampp\htdocs\ (if you installed xampp in C:\xampp). For example: C:\xampp\htdocs\myproject\; and setup your databases using PHPMyAdmin located here http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/. Configuring Mod RewriteRead more: Richard Castera