XAMPP the fast and convenient LAMPP installer

XAMPP is a package which contains all applications required to build open source application on your computer. It contains PHP, MySql, Apache, PERL, SSL Support, Mod Rewrite, PEAR and many other utilities to make the installation easier.

It also provides phpMyAdmin in a virtual directory outside htdocs to manage MySql data.

The package comes for Windows, Linux and other OS like Mac, Solaris etc.

If you are installing it on windows, it is preferable to install it on non os partition of your pc. It will store all the data there and you can format your OS partition anytime you want.

All the web contents will go in htdocs folder of your installation. The path for this will be /xampp/htdocs

One good feature is that you can easily switch your PHP veriosn in it from 5 to 4 or 4 to 5. It really helps to test applications on both the versions. To do this all you need to do is to run /xampp/php-switch.bat. /xampp folder provides many other utilities like apache_start.bat, apache_stop.bat, mysql_start.bat, mysql_stop.bat etc.