What is XAMPP and how do we install it? Explained with screen shots.
XAMPP is developed by Apache Friends to promote the Apache web server. Apache Friends was founded in the spring of 2002 by Kai ‘Oswald’ Seidler and Kay Vogelgesang. It’s Alexa rank is 7,939 as on today. Because, I use any software or website based on it’s alexa rank, I am mentioning it’s rank here to help my blog readers. XAMPP Acronym is X(Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL)
Apache Friends developed this software to help the people to install and configure Apache web server along with
MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP can be downloaded from Download. . I am downloading EXE file from this location to install on my windows vista machine. You can also download this software for other operating systems from this link. Following are the screen shots to install this software on a windows vista operating system.
- The file name of the software after downloading from specified location is xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe
- Right click on the file and click Run as administrator and click Run in the Open File – Security warning
- Click Install in “XAMPP for Windows” screen
- Type “y” for the question “Should I add shortcuts to the start menu/desktop? (y/n):” and hit enter
- Type “y” for the question “Should I Proceed? (y/x=exit setup):”
- Type “y” for the question “Should I make a portable XAMPP without drive letters? Your choice:”
- Press Enter – Enter and Type x and Enter in the next 3 steps
- You have successfully installed XAMPP in your computer now
Now we will see how to test web server with PHP, MySQL. The following steps for testing Apache web server, PHP and MySQL
- Open web browser and type http://local host in address bar and hit enter
- If you get “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” message, we have forgotten to start the web server
- To start web server Click start – click all programs – click XAMPP for Windows – Click XAMPP Control Panel
- Click start button which opposite to Apache label
- Now try to browse using above url http://localhost
- Now you should get the welcome page of XAMPP for Windows
- If you can be able to see the XAMPP home page means you can understand that Apache web server is working fine
- Now click on the link phpinfo() from left navigation of XAMPP to get the information about PHP
- If you get the information about PHP version and other details in the right pane you can understand that PHP is installed and configured on your computer
- You also can check whether Perl installed and configured or not by clicking on the link perlinfo() in the left page. Detailed information should be displayed in the right pane
- You have to start MySQL from XAMPP control panel to test the phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a tool to manage MySql databases
I have provided enough information about downloading and installation of XAMPP on your local computer. XAMPP is very useful for the people who wants to learn PHP and MySql. You can use this software for developing very powerful dynamic web applications on your local computer. You can upload to live web server once the application developed fully. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions regarding this article. I will try to help you or install it on your computer remotely.
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