For the rest of the tutorial I'm going to assume you've chosen the default c:\xampp.Īfter the installer did the job, click Finish to launch XAMPP control panel. But feel free to install whatever you are planning to use.Ĭhoose the directory where the XAMPP will install. Usually it's sufficient to install only Apache, MySQL and PHP. Select the components in which you are insterested in. If you have UAC enabled enabled XAMPP installer will recommend you not to install it into the Program Files folder. Once you've download the installar, run it. For this tutorial we are going to use Windows and PHP 8.0.
While first P would be short for PHP and second P for Pearl or reversed? Getting the XAMPP installerįrom the Apache friends website, download the package that matches your platform. The word 'XAMPP' is an acronym and it seems there is no official explaning of if, but we can safely assume that 'X' stands for 'cross', meaning 'cross-platform', A would be Apache, M is MariaDB. XAMPP is a cross-platform Apache HTTP server distribution containing MariaDB (fork of MySQL) database, PHP, and Perl.
