XAMPP Alternatives

XAMPP is described as 'Completely free web server tool with Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. Ideal for developing and testing websites locally on Windows, Linux, macOS' and is a leading Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to XAMPP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PHP apps. The best XAMPP alternative is WampServer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like XAMPP are AMPPS, MAMP, FlyEnv and Devilbox.

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XAMPP alternatives are mainly Web Servers, but if you're looking for Server Management Tools or Web Hosting Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac, Windows and Mac + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to XAMPP.
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    An installer of Apache, MySQL and PHP for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Winpweb is a free portable Windows web development stack. It contains Nginx, MariaDB and PHP (with composer).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. BAMP icon
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    BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Redis
    • Docker
     
  6. Denwer icon
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    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; Perl; virtual host management system; phpMyAdmin; sendmail stub; start/stop manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. wmWebStack icon
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    wmWebStack is a desktop application that offers a complete local server environment for web development on Windows. It includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP, bundled together for easy management. With just one click, you can publish your local web projects to the public internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    wmWebStack has live publishing feature, where localhost web projects can be viewed anywhere on the public internet.

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    • wmWebStack is Free and Open SourceXAMPP is also Free and Open Source
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    Self-contained, turnkey WAMP Server for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. MicroApache icon
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    MicroApache - A Portable Apache Server for Windows

    "This is a microscopic and very-heavily trimmed-down version of the standard, Apache server; made available under the Apache GPL licence. It was developed initially for fun to meet a FloppyWeb Challenge to run Apache from a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Windows Webserver for PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  11. Clamp icon
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    Clamp is a Command Line Apache MySQL PHP for Mac OS X made for local development. It aims at being ultra simple to use and configure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MariaDB
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • Homebrew
     
  12. Theme Juice icon
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    Theme Juice is a powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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