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How to install XAMPP for Windows 10

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What is XAMPP?

XAMPP is short for Cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. It is a free, open-source cross-platform web server solution. XAMPP is the most powerful tool for PHP development, it is fast, reliable, and lightweight software. One of the most useful aspects of XAMPP is that with one software we can install and configure PHP, MySQL, and Apache at once. This three software are very much compatible and provide great speed and reliability when used together.

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How to install XAMPP for windows 10

To install XAMPP on Windows 10 machine just follow the given instructions:
  • Visit the official website from here and download the version compatible with your system.
  • Double-click on the executable file, and you will get a warning prompt, simply ignore it and hit ok.
  • After that just click on the next button every time it appears, but make sure you must not change the default configurations.
  • At last click on the finish, button to complete the installation.

How to install MySQL on windows 10

MySQL is installed with the XAMPP software.

How to install apache on windows 10

Apache is also installed with the XAMPP software.

How to download and install XAMPP on Windows 10

How to check if PHP is installed

  • Open CMD inside the PHP folder. The path would look like this C => xampp => php.
  • Now in the terminal write the command "php -v". It will show you the installed version.

How to check if the Apache is installed

  • Open CMD inside the bin folder. The path would look like this C => xampp => apache => bin.
  • Now in the terminal write the command "httpd -v". It will show you the installed version.

How to check if MySQL is installed

  • Open the XAMPP control panel and enable the Apache and MySQL server. Make sure there is a green indication on their background.
  • Open any browser and type in the URL "localhost".
  • It will lend you to a welcome page.
  • On the welcome page, click on "PhpMyAdmin" from the menu bar.
  • It will open the dashboard of MySQL.
This is how you can install and check the status of all three software.

I hope this article was helpful to you.

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