Setting up the PHP/MySql XAMPP Environment on Windows. Download the package to your desktop and once the download is complete, run the installer, and go through the installation steps. Open a text editor (i.e. Atom) and put the following text in the file putting your own. Download XAMPP for free. An easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl. XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

Is an AMP stack which lets you install Apache, MySQL and PHP in your computer together with some other useful software. It has been designed to provide you an easy installation experience. It’s free and available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Downloading and Installing XAMPP Go to web site and download the installer based on your operating system. Installation should be similar to a normal software installation you do in your operating system. When installing, there would be an option to select whether you want to run Apache and MySQL as services.

If you chose it, Apache and MySQL will start at system boot-up which may not need if your computer is tight with memory resources or if you are not doing PHP development frequently. You can change these settings after installation. Starting Apache and MySQL.

Instructions provided in this article are based on Windows operating system but the approaches should be similar for other operating systems. My presonus download. Go to the location where you installed XAMPP (usually C: Program Files xampp) and double click on XAMPP Control Panel ( xampp-control.exe). This will bring you following screen. Click on Start buttons next to Apache and MySQL for starting them. Once opened, you would see XAMPP icon on the right of your task bar.

Clicking on that icon will show/hide XAMPP control panel. To exit from XAMPP, click on Exit button in XAMPP Control Panel. Apache Is Not Starting Error Sometimes you would experience that even after clicking Start button several times, Apache is not starting. This is usually because some other service is running at the port required by Apache which is 80 by default. An easy reproducible way for this error is starting before starting Apache.

In such a case, you would need to stop other service temporary and restart it after starting Apache. For an example, if you do so for Skype, it will find another port for working after restarting. In the installation directory, you would see a program called Port Check ( xampp-portcheck.exe). Double click on it and it will show you status of required port for Apache, MySQL and other software that comes with XAMPP. If required ports are already occupied, it will show the names of services that run on those ports. Making Requests to the Server Once you started Apache in control panel, type in your web browser. This would bring you a web page that lists XAMPP related details.