What WAMP server is the best?
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A:
WampServer is known for being the easiest to set up. Your question is kind of subjective, so i refrained from calling it the best. Different servers are suitable for different purposes. As far as i know the BEST server is still in the works, some of its features are:
<kidding>
- Mind reading.
- Debugs itself and it hosted scripts.
- Absolutely no downtime.
- Auto configuration for every module ever known to mankind.
- Can only be hacked by itself.
- Runs on 1MG of RAM and requires 600K installation space.
</kidding>
Babiker
2010-06-19 23:02:55
Currently I'm using WampServer but the updates of PHP, Apache and MySQL in it are rare.
ilhan
2010-06-19 23:06:56
Its certainly tweekable and upgradable if you know where you php.ini, http.conf and my.ini are.
Babiker
2010-06-19 23:19:50
@ilhan: Then check which one has more frequent updates. So I assume the **best** server for you would be the one that has the most frequent updates?
Felix Kling
2010-06-19 23:21:10
Babiker, I've done already the php.ini, http.conf, etc configurations. WampServer didn't see them.
ilhan
2010-06-20 00:16:55
@ilhan As fas as configuration goes, if you've done it correctly, it should work. As far as updates you need to install first, then configure.
Babiker
2010-06-20 00:37:49
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A:
For a development server: XAMPP stays fairly current, but I can't say I've bothered to look at others for a few years. It's current enough that my Windows dev environment is usually too far ahead of the production servers.
For a production server: build it yourself from source or have your sysadmin do it, no question. Those all-in-one things pack a lot of excess modules & junk you probably won't need, which will only slow your server down. Too many moving parts.
tadamson
2010-06-19 23:41:45