Install XAMPP for easy integrated development

Introduction: Open source software such as XAMPP in the Apache Friends simplifies the development of open source projects by simplifying the authoring and distribution of applications in a stable and standardized environment. Traditionally, ampp-Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl-are installed and configured as separate products. The promise of integrating them into middleware software makes open source projects more competitive than the development of j2ee™ applications, at least for the underlying applications. In this article, you will learn how to install, configure, and back up XAMPP on Mandrake linux™10.0, how to configure and manage XAMPP, and how to install your own applications in a XAMPP environment.

The advent of Java 2 Enterprise edition™ dramatically changes the software domain, providing an integrated middleware software that can greatly simplify the task of writing and deploying Java™ applications. For a while, the Open-source community was left far behind because of the lack of a similar integration architecture.

Recently, this situation began to change gradually with the advent of XAMPP this integrated open-source software in the Apache Friends. While these tools are very simple and even trivial compared to Java, this is an important step in the path to comprehensive system integration. PHP 5.0, which makes PHP fully object-oriented, is a good barometer of the accelerating trend.

The focus of this article is to introduce one of the integrated open-source software: The XAMPP in Apache Friends.

XAMPP Introduction

XAMPP is a full-featured ampp (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl) package that is one of several non-commercial AMPP middleware that can be used on Linux platforms. With this tight integration, XAMPP can run any program: from a personal home page to a full-featured product site (although this is for development purposes only; For security reasons, XAMPP is not suitable for use on a product server).

XAMPP actually in the following areas of great glory:

Easy to install and set.

Contains a number of useful packages that can simplify tasks such as generating traffic reports and speeding PHP content.

Complete testing has been done on SUSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian Linux distributions, and Windows® and Solaris.

For this article, we will install XAMPP on Mandrake Linux 10.0. Now let's take a look at the default packages provided in XAMPP.

The Basic Package

Basic packages include system, programming, and Server Software:

Apache, the famous Web server

MySQL, an outstanding, free open source database

PHP, a programming language (version 4.3.8 and 5.0.1 when writing this article)

Perl, a programming language

ProFTPD, an FTP server

OpenSSL, can support Secure Sockets Layer

Graphics packages

XAMPP includes the following graphic-related packages:

GD, "Graphics Draw" library

Libpng, the official PNG reference Implementation Library

Libjpeg, the official JPEG reference Implementation Library

ncurses, character Graphics library