While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you ...

If you have a need to quickly deploy a MySQL server, Jack Wallen shows you how, with the help of Docker. Many web applications and services depend upon databases. Chances are, your business depends on ...

XAMPP is a free and open-source tool that is basically used to create a local copy of the site on your computer for testing purposes. This lightweight, cross-platform application makes it quite simple ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Nginx is the DevOps community’s most beloved http web server. And developers love the PHP ...

I’ve got to hand it to Practical PHP and MySQL author Jono Bacon: There aren’t a lot of writers who could get me to bring a book about Web development on a plane to keep from being bored. He ...

To get started, you should have two software – WAMP and the Drupal package. WAMP is a software stack consisting of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. First, you will have to install WAMP on Windows. In ...