XAMPP - A package of PHP, MySQL and Apache server

XAMPP is a cross platform web server package, which is free and open source, consists of Appche HTTP Server, MySQL Database, PHPMyAdmin and is written in the php programming language.

XAMPP is an acronym for:

• X (meaning cross-platform)
• Apache HTTP Server
  
• MySQL
• PHP
• Perl

XAMPP is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X, and is mainly used for web development projects.

Download the package from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Setup illustration:

After double click a package installer, I will a window like this:



Next step is to choose installed location path for XAMPP package.



After a complete process, there is a dialog box which lets me know the installation is successfully finished and ask me to open the Web server control panel.



The control panel of web server package will have an interface like this:



now , I try to test a local web server working or not by entering "localhost" on URL address bar. if it works, it will show XAMPP Layout like :