Second - XAMPP is extremely portable! Moving it from one directory or drive to another requires only one run of setup_xampp.bat. It particularly is minimized to unzip archive and run setup batch.
First - it's configuration is so easy, that even a child can do it. Introduction ¶Īt the beginning it is important to answer why to choose XAMPP among so many server packages available? Well, there are two strong advantages of it.
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You need full version of XAMPP, if you plan to test applications with mailing capabilities (for example: e-mailing new password in user management modules or RBAC extensions). Please note: Lite version does not contains any mail server and mail() PHP function fails because of that. Consult documentation to see differences between Lite and Full versions. Especially if you want to use Windows version for this purpose, which is highly NOT advisable! Please, consult its documentation or community about that.įor development purposes the Lite version available here is far enough.
I host my apps in production versions on paid hosting and cannot guarantee that XAMPP has enough security level for running as production server. >Info: It is also worth underlining that I'm using XAMPP for years as development environment only. I write about Windows edition as it was the only one tested by me.
Please note, that XAMPP is available for many more platforms and systems. This article explains issues about installing XAMPP server package (Lite version) on Windows OS and configuring it for serving webapps written in Yii.
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