XAMPP

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XAMPP

A screenshot of XAMPP running all servers on Mac OS X
Developer(s) Apache Friends
Initial release May 22, 2002 (2002-05-22)
Stable release 7.0.5 - Windows
7.0.5 - Linux
7.0.5 - OS X / April 21, 2016 (2016-04-21)
Development status Active
Written in Various Languages
Operating system Cross-platform
Linux
Windows
Solaris
Mac OS X
Platform Windows - 2008, 2012, Vista, 7, 8 x32 Bit
Linux - Debian, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, SUSE x32 or x64 Bit
OS X - 10.6 or later x64 Bit
Size Windows x32 Bit - 118 Mb
Linux x32 Bit - 129 Mb
Linux x64 Bit - 129 Mb
OS X x64 Bit - 131 Mb
Available in 11 languages
Type WAMP, MAMP, SAMP, LAMP
License GNU General Public Licence
Alexa rank Increase 12,613 (November 2015)
Website apachefriends.org

XAMPP (/ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/[1]) is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends,[1] consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.[2][3] XAMPP stands for Cross-Platform (X), Apache (A), MariaDB (M), PHP (P) and Perl (P). It is a simple, lightweight Apache distribution that makes it extremely easy for developers to create a local web server for testing and deployment purposes. Everything needed to set up a web server – server application (Apache), database (MariaDB), and scripting language (PHP) – is included in an extractable file. XAMPP is also cross-platform, which means it works equally well on Linux, Mac and Windows. Since most actual web server deployments use the same components as XAMPP, it makes transitioning from a local test server to a live server extremely easy as well.

Etymology

The term XAMPP is an apparent acronym. However, there is no official acronym expansion specified on the Apache Friends website. Their homepage header reads “XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl”, indicating that this abbreviation is a recursive acronym.

The term can be unofficially broken down as follows:

Acronym Letter Acronym Meaning
X XAMPP[4] or an ideographic letter X, meaning cross‑platform[5]
A Apache[4] or its expanded form, Apache HTTP Server[5]
M MariaDB[6] (formerly: MySQL[5][6])
P PHP[4][5]
P Perl[4][5]

MySQL was replaced with MariaDB on 2015-10-19 and beginning with XAMPP versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14,[6] effectively altering the meaning of the acronym.

While both letters P are de facto interchangeable, convention used at the Apache Friends website indicates that the first letter P is short for PHP and the latter letter P is short for Perl.

Prerequisites and Features

Prerequisites

XAMPP requires only one zip, tar, 7z, or exe file to be downloaded and run, and little or no configuration of the various components that make up the web server is required.[7]

Features

XAMPP is regularly updated to incorporate the latest releases of Apache, MariaDB, PHP and Perl. It also comes with a number of other modules including OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress and more.[8] Self-contained, multiple instances of XAMPP can exist on a single computer, and any given instance can be copied from one computer to another.[9] XAMPP is offered in both a full and a standard version (Smaller version).[9]

Usage

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.[10] XAMPP has the ability to serve web pages on the World Wide Web.[11] A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package.[12]

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

Once XAMPP is installed, it is possible to treat a localhost like a remote host by connecting using an FTP client. Using a program like FileZilla has many advantages when installing a content management system (CMS) like Joomla or WordPress. It is also possible to connect to localhost via FTP with an HTML editor.

Components

XAMPP 7.0.5 for Windows and Linux, Mac OSX, including:[13]

Component On Windows On Linux On OS X
Apache 2.4.18 Yes Yes Yes
MariaDB 10.1.13 Yes Yes Yes
PHP Yes - 7.0.5 Yes - 7.0.5[14] Yes - 7.0.5[14]
phpMyAdmin Yes - 4.5.1 Yes - 4.5.1 Yes - 4.5.1
OpenSSL Yes - 1.0.2g Yes - 1.0.2g Yes - 1.0.2g
XAMPP Control Panel 3.2.2 Yes No No
Webalizer Yes - 2.23-04 Yes - 2.23-05 Yes - 2.23-05
Mercury Mail Yes No No
Transport System 4.63 Yes No No
Tomcat 7.0.56 (with mod_proxy_ajp as connector) Yes No No
Strawberry Perl 7.0.56 Portable Yes No No
FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.41 Yes No No
ProFTPD 1.3.4c No Yes Yes
GD 2.0.35 No Yes Yes
Perl 5.16.3 No Yes Yes
Freetype2 2.4.8 No Yes Yes
libpng 1.5.9 No Yes Yes
gdbm 1.8.3 No Yes Yes
zlib 1.2.8 No Yes Yes
expat 2.0.1 No Yes Yes
Sablotron 1.0.3 No Yes Yes
libxml 2.0.1 No Yes Yes
Ming 0.4.5 No Yes Yes
pdf class 0.11.7 No Yes Yes
ncurses 5.9 No Yes Yes
mod_perl 2.0.8-dev No Yes Yes
FreeTDS 0.91 No Yes Yes
gettext 0.18.1.1 No Yes Yes
IMAP C-Client 2007e No Yes Yes
OpenLDAP (client) 2.4.21 No Yes Yes
mcrypt 2.5.8 Yes Yes Yes
mhash 0.9.9.9 No Yes Yes
cUrl 7.30.0 No Yes Yes
libxslt 1.1.28 No Yes Yes
libapreq 2.12 No Yes Yes
FPDF 1.7 No Yes Yes
ICU4C Library 4.8.1 No Yes Yes
APR 1.4.6 No Yes Yes
APR-utils 1.5.1 No Yes Yes

Major Component Versions in XAMPP Releases

XAMPP Apache MariaDB MySQL PHP Ref
1.6.0 2.2.3 - 5.0.33 5.2.1 / 4.4.5 [15]
1.6.0a 2.2.4 - 5.0.33 5.2.1 / 4.4.5 [16]
1.6.1 2.2.4 - 5.0.37 5.2.1 / 4.4.6 [17]
1.6.2 2.2.4 - 5.0.41 5.2.2 / 4.4.7 [18]
1.6.3 2.2.4 - 5.0.54 5.2.3 / 4.4.7 [19]
1.6.3a 2.2.4 - 5.0.45 5.2.3 / 4.4.7 [20]
1.6.4 2.2.6 - 5.0.45 5.2.4 / 4.4.7 [21]
1.6.5 2.2.6 - 5.0.51 5.2.5 / 4.4.7 [22]
1.6.6 2.2.8 - 5.0.51 5.2.5 / 4.4.8 (RC2) [23]
1.6.6a 2.2.8 - 5.0.51a 5.2.5 / 4.4.8 [24]
1.6.7 2.2.9 - 5.0.51b 5.2.6 / 4.4.8 [25]
1.6.8 2.2.9 - 5.0.67 5.2.6 / 4.4.9 [26]
1.7.0 2.2.11 - 5.1.30 5.2.8 [27]
1.7.1 2.2.11 - 5.1.33 5.2.9 [28]
1.7.2 2.2.12 - 5.1.37 5.3.0 [29]
1.7.3 2.2.14 - 5.1.41 5.3.1 [30]
1.7.4 2.2.17 - 5.5.8 5.3.5 [31]
1.7.5 2.2.21 - 5.5.15 5.3.8 [32]
1.7.7 2.2.21 - 5.5.16 5.3.8 [33]
1.8.0 2.4.2 - 5.5.25a 5.4.4 [34]
1.8.1 2.4.3 - 5.5.27 5.4.7 [35]
1.8.2 2.4.10 - 5.5.39 5.4.31 [36]
1.8.3 2.4.10 - 5.6.20 5.5.15 [37]
5.5.19 2.4.10 - 5.6.21 5.5.19 [38]
5.5.33 2.4.18 10.1.10 - 5.5.33 [39]
5.5.34 2.4.18 10.1.13 - 5.5.34 [40]
5.6.3 2.4.10 - 5.6.21 5.6.3 [41]
5.5.24 2.4.12 - 5.6.24 5.5.24 [42]
5.6.8 2.4.12 - 5.6.24 5.6.8 [43]
5.6.11 2.4.16 - 5.6.25 5.6.11 [44]
5.6.12 2.4.16 - 5.6.26 5.6.12 [45]
5.6.14 2.4.17 10.1.8 - 5.6.14 [46]
5.6.15 2.4.17 10.1.9 - 5.6.15 [47]
5.6.19 2.4.18 10.1.10 - 5.6.19 [48]
5.6.20 2.4.18 10.1.13 - 5.6.20 [49]
7.0.0 2.4.18 10.1.9 - 7.0.0 [50]
7.0.1 2.4.18 10.1.9 - 7.0.1 [51]
7.0.2 2.4.18 10.1.10 - 7.0.2 [52]
7.0.3 2.4.18 10.1.10 - 7.0.3 [53]
7.0.4 2.4.18 10.1.10 - 7.0.4 [54]
7.0.5 2.4.18 10.1.13 - 7.0.5 [55]

See also

References

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