In which cases, except development, would you prefer Xampp over a complete installation and configuration of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
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Other than development, the only other time I use it is for demos - it's nice being able to take a "solution on a stick" to a customer.
I'd never consider it for a live/public site though.
Steven Robbins
2009-01-14 09:49:11
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I would say that XAMPP would be preferred over a complete manual install, whenever one is not confident enough, skilled enough, experienced enough, or educated enough to properly install, the OS/HTTP Server/Database Server/Language System with all the mainstream security and stability aspects in mind, and compensated for.
Although I recognize that XAMPP is not perfect it is, in 99% of cases, much better then anyone without proper knowledge could accomplish.
Unkwntech
2009-01-14 11:05:53
I think that if someone doesn't understand the stack they are developing for they need to take some time to learn it. If you don't understand how to set up a LAMP stack, how can you diagnose problems with Xampp?
dragonmantank
2009-01-14 12:10:52
well you cant but it can provide a working solution that can be useful learning the basic systems and config files.
Unkwntech
2009-01-14 20:20:15