Downloadable Test Servers

[carerra]

Does anyone know of any easy to use, powerful and free web servers to download?

Mainly for testing website with serverside code.

I have Abyss and I did have xampp. But are there any better ones out there?

[Tyler]

Be careful if you do that. When you go from a server on your computer (most likely windows) to a web server like ours (*nix based) you are going to see a lot of differences in setup. It isnt something where you will always be able to just swap the files and call it good.

[mafiaworld]

I have a webserver on my laptop, and it's called Apache It's quick and simple, and there's hundreds of tutorials on YouTube. It's compatible with PHP and MySQL but you have to install them individually and do a bit of changing to the server's code.

[tdj]

Originally Posted by mafiaworld

I have a webserver on my laptop, and it's called Apache It's quick and simple, and there's hundreds of tutorials on YouTube. It's compatible with PHP and MySQL but you have to install them individually and do a bit of changing to the server's code.

XAMPP which Carerra mentioned is an intergrated package (PHP MySQL etc) with apache at it's core. --If your using it for testing/dev then that simpler & easier than manually installing each component.

Regardless of which way however if your testing on a non *nix system you may run into issues, as Tyler mentioned, because this server uses freeBSD, which is *nix.

[mafiaworld]

Originally Posted by tdj

XAMPP which Carerra mentioned is an intergrated package (PHP MySQL etc) with apache at it's core. --If your using it for testing/dev then that simpler & easier than manually installing each component.

Regardless of which way however if your testing on a non *nix system you may run into issues, as Tyler mentioned, because this server uses freeBSD, which is *nix.

I've used XAMPP once and I found it quite confusing at first. I'm thinking of re-installing it and using it again since I've learned alot more about servers.

[mrdavid]

I love how you act like Tyler doesn't know what Apache is lmao.

WAMP2 is good. http://www.wampserver.com/en/