Re: Which installer is better?
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Re: Which installer is better?

From: Carl Vondrick <usenet@carlsoft.net>
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 05:42:39 CET

Primal Oooze wrote:
> XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use -
> just download, extract and start.
> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
>
> WinLAMP is an installer for Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80998
>
> WinLAMP is about 60 mgb
> XAMPP is about 30 mgb
> That's all I know about them.
>
> Which is easiest to install and use??
> All I need is apache server, php and mySql.
>
>
>
I recommend XAMPP to newer PHP developers. I find it easy to use, and
it sets everything up for you. It is truly no hassle.

However, you should just install PHP and Apache on their own. It's not
that hard, and it works quite fine for me. Do a Google search for a
tutorial.

-- 
Carl Vondrick
usenet@carlsoft.net
www.carlsoft.net
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:08:08 2006