Laravel Herd Alternatives

Apps similar to Laravel Herd include XAMPP, which is free and open source. Other options are FlyEnv, WordPress Studio, WampServer and MAMP. Web Servers like Laravel Herd are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux and self-hosting.

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    An installer of Apache, MySQL and PHP for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. WordPress Portable is a free program for Windows that automatically ships with everything needed to run WordPress locally. All you need to do is to extract the package contents on your system after download and start the WordPress Portable executable afterwards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. InstantWP icon
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    InstantWP is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It will turn almost any Windows or macOS machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • Wordpress
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    MNPP: Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP. Install a world-class PHP development environment on your Mac. Unleash the speed of the webserver everybody is talking about, Nginx. And for storage, use Percona, the most carefully maintained independent fork of the famous MySQL database, now...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Zend Server is the #1 professional PHP stack. It is the most complete PHP distribution with a continuously updated set of advanced value-add features designed to optimize productivity, performance, scalability and reliability.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  7. Pressmatic icon
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    Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Server bundle of : Apache2 , MySQL , PostgreSQL , OpenSSL , Xmail , SlimFTPd Software developing triad of : PHP , Perl and Python

    • Apache2TriadCP , PHPmyadmin , PHPPgAdmin , AWStats , UebiMiau , PHPXMail , PHPSFTPd. All latest stables , all manuals

    Features HTTP server FTP serv.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. The ultimate platform for cloud-based development. Bring enterprise-level security to remote software development teams worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
    • WebStorm
    • Pycharm
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • CLion
    • GitHub
    • GitLab
    • Bitbucket
    • JetBrains Rider
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Kubernetes
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  10. Portable server for python web development.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    LitePXP is a completely portable application which includes Apache, MySQL and PHP. LitePXP will enable you to run your PHP applications directly from a CD/DVD, USB stick or hard disk without any installation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Redis
    • Docker
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