Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Web Development Environment with the XAMPP Package
In This Chapter
Downloading and installing XAMPP
Testing and configuring your development environment
Troubleshooting your XAMPP installation
XAMPP is a popular all-in-one kit that installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP in one procedure. XAMPP also installs phpMyAdmin, a web application you can use to administer your MySQL databases.
XAMPP can greatly simplify the installation process. The XAMPP installation installs all the software you need for the applications discussed in this book.
According to the XAMPP website, XAMPP is intended as a development environment on a local computer. As a development environment, XAMPP is configured to be as open as possible. XAMPP isn’t intended for production use — it isn’t secure as a production environment. Before using XAMPP to make a website available to the public, you need to tighten the security. Security is discussed in detail in Book IV.
XAMPP has stable versions available for Windows, Mac, and several versions of Linux. Because XAMPP installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP, ...
