type servers, I hope this answers your questions.I hope you are well. So, for those of you who are curious, and wonder why I don't use one of the other Win-related *A.M.P. Because let's face it, having a test environment that is very similar to the live environment that your site is being built for, is EXTREMELY crucial if you want the best results of your efforts.Īnd ultimately, after using XAMPP for as long as I have, it's actually quite easy to work in. No need to worry about a different environment when switching from one OS to another.Īnother reason is that it more closely resembles my ISP's servers and how they're configured.
For instance, there are times when I'll have a Linux box that I'm working on, and it only makes sense to keep with something I already know, and XAMPP provides that. There are a couple of reasons why I choose to use XAMPP as opposed to WAMP or Acquia Drupal, and probably the most important reason is the fact that XAMPP is developed for pretty much all platforms Mac, Win, Linux, and *NIX. Open up your Web Browser, and type in in which you should be presented with the XAMPP splash screen. you should now see a green "Running" indicator.ħ. There you will see a column of "Start" buttons, select the one for MySQL and the one for Apache. Double-click on the new XAMPP Control Desktop shortcut which opens up the XAMPP Control Panel Application. Now, navigate to "C:\xampp" and right-click "xampp-control.exe" and in the dialog pop up select: "Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)"Ħ. If you aren't familiar with how to do this, there are plenty of tutorials on the web to show you how.ĥ. This will cause problems if left turned on. Next, go to "Start > Control Panel > User Accounts," and turn off the User Account Control (UAC). Note: It MUST be in a top-level directory such as "C:\", NOT within another folder such as "C:\Program Files (x86)."Ĥ. After extracting the ZIP file, move the newly created "xampp" folder from "Downloads" to "C:\" Using 7-zip, or WinRAR, or WinZip, or whatever compression tool you prefer, right-click on the xampp-win32-1.7.x.zip file and select "Extract here" it doesn't matter where you downloaded the ZIP file to, it will create a new folder called "xampp" and extract all contents within it.ģ. Download the ZIP file instead of the the EXE file, and save it to your "Downloads" folder.Ģ. XAMPP will work on Windows 7 (64-bit), because that's what I use.
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