XAMPP New Update 01 Aug 2013

Many
people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an
Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and
Perl.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP
and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just
download, extract and start.

At the moment there are four XAMPP distributions:

XAMPP for Linux

The
distribution for Linux systems (tested for SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and
Debian)
contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin,
OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, gdbm, zlib, expat, Sablotron,
libxml, Ming, Webalizer, pdf class, ncurses, mod_perl, FreeTDS, gettext,
mcrypt, mhash, eAccelerator, SQLite and IMAP C-Client.

XAMPP for Windows

The
distribution for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7 and 8. This version
contains:
Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL,
phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and
NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator,
SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

XAMPP for Mac OS X

The
distribution for Mac OS X
contains:
Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, SQLite, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin,
OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, Ming, Webalizer,
mod_perl.

XAMPP for Solaris

The
distribution for Solaris (developed and tested with Solaris 8, tested
with Solaris 9)
contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin,
OpenSSL, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, expat, Ming, Webalizer, pdf
class.

XAMPP is free of charge

We
don't like overpriced commercial software and XAMPP is our attempt to
do something that shows free software doesn't have to be bad.

XAMPP installs easily under Linux:
Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl
optimally put together. (Linux screenshot of
PHP/Ming demo)

Easy installation and deinstallation

To install XAMPP you only need to download and extract XAMPP, that's
all. There are no changes to the Windows registry (not true if you use
the Windows installer version of XAMPP) and it's not necessary to edit
any configuration files. It couldn't be easier!

To check that XAMPP is working some sample programs are included, there
is a small CD collection program (written in PHP using MySQL) and a
small guest book software (written in Perl) and several other
demonstration utilities.

If you decide that XAMPP isn't needed any more just delete the XAMPP directory and it's completely removed from your system.

However if you use the Windows installer version of XAMPP it's
recommended to use the uninstall feature. As every installer the
installer will make registry entries to remember the install.

The philosophy

The
philosophy behind XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for
developers to get into the world of Apache. To make it convenient for
developers XAMPP is configured with all features turned on.

The default configuration is not good from a security point of view and
it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use
XAMPP in such environment.

Since LAMPP 0.9.5 you can make your XAMPP installation secure by calling »/opt/lampp/lampp security«.

The license

XAMPP
is a compilation of free software (comparable to a Linux distribution),
it's free of charge and it's free to copy under the terms of the

GNU General Public License.
But it is only the compilation of XAMPP that is published under GPL.
Please check every single license of the contained products to get an
overview of what is, and what isn't, allowed.

In the case of commercial use please take a look at the product licenses
(especially MySQL), from the XAMPP point of view commercial use is also
free.

The warranty

»This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.« (See the

GNU General Public License for more details.)

XAMPP Download Statistics

Since some month (today is the 4th of july 2003) the Source Forge statistics don't
work correctly any more and showing only extremely less download counts.

Because of this I started to count the downloads by myself.

Many
thanks to the whole Apache Friends team for making such a good job at
our forum/chat and for the big support in developing XAMPP.

Special thanks to

Koen Hachmang for his font »Kinkimono«. We use the X of his font in our
XAMPP logo.

Special thanks also to

SourceForge for hosting the download files and making this project possible.

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