Tag «XAMPP»

dealing with VirtualHosts in XAMPP

If the URL schema of http://localhost/foldername isn’t working for you, or you just want to test the webpages behavior with the live address, you need to configure so called VirtualHosts in Apache. Usually that is done by editing httpd.conf but XAMPP has a different (and much easier) approach to this. Let’s take a look! First …

Installing and configuring XAMPP

XAMPP is a really versatile web development kit for PHP and/or Perl. It includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and a lot of other nifty programs, it has a nice control panel, even has an FTP server. Best of all: it is cross-platform. In this how to we will install it and configure it. First of …

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