XAMPP and WAMP in the LAMP, what's the best? [closed]

Solution 1:

I like XAMPP, personally. I have an install running on a thumbdrive that I carry around that's pretty much my development environment for LAMP web dev on any machine I happen to be at (I'm mostly on Windows client machines).

Small, fully-functional, and stable - works really well for my needs.

Solution 2:

I like WAMP the best, real simple interface and I can easily switch between different versions of PHP 5.26/4.44/4.3.9, MySQL 5/4, and Apache 2/1.3

Solution 3:

XAMPP is good for development and portability, that's for sure.

LAMP is best for performance and security (and ubiquity).

WAMP...well, that's for if you don't want to learn Linux, I guess.

Solution 4:

LAMP seems to be the most common of those options, so on a strictly find solutions to your problems I would recommend LAMP.

It really comes down to whats going to be the best option for you though. If you don't know Linux than maybe running a WAMP setup will make the process easier to maintain. Try and factor in your experiance and the maintenance required on the server into your decision.

Personally I run a LAMP server for my purposes, as I know enough Linux to maintain it and it ended up being the best solution for my purposes.

Solution 5:

I tried XAMPP and gave up...I faced an issue with backslashes(widows uses forward slashes)..due to this none of my scripts could save any files to folders because the path would be like dir1\dir2\folder/image_folder/image.jpg...I tried WAMP it worked like a charm..it threw no errors and saved the image files as intented...so..I guess I will stick to WAMP...I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how the "madslashes" issue is fixed on XAMPP..I googled furiously..without any luck..thanks