Alternatives to Acquia Dev Desktop for all platforms with any license

  • MAMP

    MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. It comes free of charge, and is easily installed. MAMP will not compromise any existing...

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  • AMPPS

    AMPPS is an easy to install software stack of Apache, Mysql, PHP, Perl, Python and Softaculous auto-installer that can be used on Desktops and office servers.

    Free Mac Windows Linux

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  • Kalabox

    Faster local development for Drupal, WordPress, and beyond. Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites and get them live. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun!.

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    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • SecureWAMP

    With SecureWAMP you can set up a complete and safe WAMP-System in a few minutes, which you can administrate completely via a GUI. Compared to common WAMPs SecureWAMP...

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • Neard

    Neard is a portable WAMP software stack for the Microsoft Windows operating system involving Apache HTTP Server, OpenSSL for SSL support, PHP programming language, MySQL...

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • Fenix Web Server

    Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows

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  • FoxServ

    FoxServ is an Apache / mySQL / PHP installer package for Windows and Linux. Unlike NuShpere or PHPTriad, FoxServ features the latest version of all …

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

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  • Denwer

    Denwer is a collection of often-used web-servers for web-programmers. It is used to debug web-sites under Win32. Denwer includes: friendly installer; Apache; PHP; MySQL;...

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    Free Personal Windows Self-Hosted

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  • Aegir Hosting System

    Easily and quickly create, deploy, and manage many Drupal and Wordpress web sites, and scale across multiple server clusters.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted Drupal Wordpress

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  • LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS)

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server....

    Commercial Linux

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about Acquia Dev Desktop and MAMP, XAMPP · Sep 2012 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Not really for general use, but great if you are building sites in a specific major-version of Drupal. (On a Mac, I think it should be possible to run two different major-version stacks, but I haven't tried it.) Really simplifies the setup and configuration, but again, not an alternative for general dev purposes. (You could tweak/hack it to host other systems, but by then you've have been better off using a general-purpose *AMP stack.)

For my part, I run this and MAMP on my mac and this and XAMPP on Windows.

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