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Posted by Morrice Pfeiffer
Morrice Pfeiffer
4,162 Points

Alternatives to XAMPP

Hi Randy

Is there a chance that maybe you can re-examine different WAMP servers?

I tell you why.

I followed to the letter your instructions in the video and yes it all worked but "sorta of". As I watch your video, the sublime editor that you had open did not jive with what I had open ie: file directory and structure was not the same.
I found that XAMP added 3 extra folders that when deleted resulted in errors etc. Being curious I downloaded alternative WAMP servers. Now thats an interesting experience seeing Mike the Frog show up on multiple pages without a head or, with feet instead of a head etc. In any case I settled on Wamp server from source forge because they make the the root directory easy to understand and use.

What are your experiences? How about other users?

Thanks

M

3 Answers

Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points
Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points

Hi Morrice, Everything worked smoothly for me when, I used the XAMPP server. However, I hope you will get the help you need to move forward, and finish what you started.

Morrice Pfeiffer
Morrice Pfeiffer
4,162 Points
Morrice Pfeiffer
Morrice Pfeiffer
4,162 Points

Hi Mike

Everything worked. It took sometime.

I am little old school so I like to look at all the options and figure out what works best for me.

It's just my opinion that exposure to "different" wamp environments might be kind of important.

I really liked WAMP and the fact the it had a www directory instated of an htdocs directory made sense to me.

I tried easyphp, zendserver, bitnami and they are all a little different in the interface they present.

M

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

My view is pick one and stick with it. As it's just a local dev environment, just a tool to make coding PHP easier.

Randy Hoyt
STAFF
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Morrice,

I should definitely add a note about not deleting those folders. Thanks for pointing that out!

I also wouldn't worry too much about which local PHP environment you use. I agree with James: just pick one you like and stick with it. I do most of my real development on Linux servers over the internet that have PHP installed directly, not with a software package like XAMPP. These packages make it easy to get up and running, but you wouldn't usually use them in production environments.