Once XAMPP is installed, it is possible to treat a localhost like a remote host by connecting using an FTP client. XAMPP also provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MariaDB and SQLite among others. A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package. XAMPP has the ability to serve web pages on the World Wide Web. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default. Officially, XAMPP's designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. Later some common packaged applications that could be easily installed were provided by Bitnami. The most obvious characteristic of XAMPP is the ease at which a WAMP webserver stack can be deployed and instantiated.
#Mamp vs xampp full#
XAMPP is offered in both a full and a standard version (Smaller version). Self-contained, multiple instances of XAMPP can exist on a single computer, and any given instance can be copied from one computer to another. It also comes with a number of other modules including OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress and more.
#Mamp vs xampp update#
XAMPP is regularly update to the latest releases of Apache, MariaDB, PHP and Perl. The Windows version of XAMPP requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable. XAMPP requires only one zip, tar, 7z, or exe file to be downloaded and run, and little or no configuration of the various components that make up the web server is required. While both letters P are de facto interchangeable, convention used at the Apache Friends website indicates that the first letter P is short for PHP and the latter letter P is short for Perl. MySQL was replaced with MariaDB on 19 October 2015 and beginning with XAMPP versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14, effectively altering the meaning of the acronym.
The term can be unofficially broken down as follows:Īn ideographic letter referring to cross-platform Īpache, or its expanded form, Apache HTTP Server Their homepage header reads "XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl", indicating that this abbreviation is a recursive acronym. However, there is no official acronym expansion specified on the Apache Friends website.