Time for action – installing XAMPP

XAMPP is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Download the installer from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html; pick the installer in accordance with the platform you are using right now. Each platform will have a different installer with different extensions; Windows users will get .exe, OSX users will get .dmg, while Linux users will get .run. Perform the following steps to install XAMPP in Windows:

  1. Launch the XAMPP .exe installer.
  2. If the Windows User Account Control prompts Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer? click on Yes.
    Time for action – installing XAMPP
  3. When the XAMPP Setup Wizard window appears, ...

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