There are a number of great web development servers available that you can install on your PC to get straight into web development or trying out various web applications without the hassle of installing and configuring your own server.
These include:
- XAMPP – Apache-MySQL-PHP and Perl server (its portable too)
- WAMP Server - Apache-MySQL-PHP for Windows
- InstantRails – An instant Ruby on Rails Development Server
- The Uniform Server – Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP, there’s also a Tomcat Plugin
- Server2Go – Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl and also supports SQLite
Do you or have you used any of these? Have a favourite?
Comment by Lindsey — March 5, 2010 #
Yep, I’ve tried all of them out. The two best Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl ones are XAMPP and WAMPServer. InstantRails is specifically for Ruby on Rails development and uses Apache-MySQL.
My preference is XAMPP, its portable (but don’t try to run it from a USB drive, its too slow). However I think WAMP Server is more user friendly. If you’re relatively inexperience with Apache/MySQL administration, I’d go for WAMP Server.
Comment by praj — March 5, 2010 #