XAMPP Installation Steps

Varinder Sandhu Others, Varinder Sandhu

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

XAMPP’s name is an acronym for:

X (to be read as “cross”, meaning cross-platform)
Apache HTTP Server
MySQL
PHP
Perl

Officially, XAMPP’s designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default. In practice, however, XAMPP is sometimes used to actually serve web pages on the World Wide Web. A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package.

XAMPP also provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MySQL and SQLite among others.

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