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Installing XAMPP
Installing XAMPP
If you have access to an account having PHP and MySQL installed, you way want to skip the rest of this tutorial. Even though I web access to these software packages I prefer to develop and test on my PC and upload when I’m finished.
When I first installed Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl and phpMyAdmin several years ago it took the better part of a day to get everything working and talking to each other. It’s now a piece of cake because of XAMPP which is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl and phpMyAdmin as well as several other goodies. Installation will take 5 minutes, tops. Just download, run the install program and start programming.
Downloading XAMPP
XAMPP comes in four flavors, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris. For the sake of this tutorial I’m going to assume we’re going to install the package on a windows box. Start the installation by going to:
ApacheFriends.org
Download the Installer version. This is a 36 megabyte executable file named:
xampp-win32-n-n-n-installer.exe Where n-n-n is the version number. Once it’s downloaded click on the Start Button->Run->Browse and select the path and then the file name you downloaded. When you run the file the first screen is as shown above.