Title: OT: Server and PHP Last modified: December 25, 2016 --- # OT: Server and PHP * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/) * I fancy playing around with PHP, but would rather be able to do this locally and not have to wait for ftp uploading. Any recommendations for a basic server setup ? mySQL at a later date might be fun, but for now just something I can run php scripts on while I learn and make lots of mistakes 🙂 I have my php downloads, but looking at server software is a tad confusing. Oh, and free is good, very good indeed ! Thanks Edit: XP Home here Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/) * (@nuclearmoose) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44098) * podz, Here is a free article at CommunityMX that may help. [Get it here.](http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=59334) * Thread Starter [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44104) * Craig, that is *fantastic* ! I’d spent ages trying to get apache talking to PHP … and that install of phpdev was working inside of a couple of minutes. Brilliant 🙂 * [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/) * (@nuclearmoose) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44105) * podz Glad to hear it worked for you! * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44121) * It’s kinda ugly in places, but it works and it’s what I’m using currently: [http://apache2triad.sourceforge.net/](http://apache2triad.sourceforge.net/) It seems kinda slow, but that could be the system I’m running it on (Centrino laptop0. * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44129) * Centrino laptops are _the fastest_ and best in the scene 😉 -ProudOwnerOfAnAcerTravelmate290LMi. * [derek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derek/) * (@derek) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44135) * I’ve dumped [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-en.html) on my XP Home laptop for testing/hacking/etc. It’s a preconfigured Apache/PHP/MySQL install, you just unpack it and execute the mysql and httpd batch files. It’s probably not very robust, but it’s an amazingly fast way to get a working development environment on an XP system. * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44157) * I just grabbed apache, php, and MySQL versions reasonably close to my providers versions, downloaded and installed them, and went through a set of configuration changes to sync them (which I likely got from a website or article somewhere). Wasn’t really that hard. The tricks are what things are built-in for a particular build/release of each… sometimes you’ll be missing a key feature. Pretty easy to get up and running, and I definitely would recommend anyone running a heavily hit (or modified) site run a local install first to work on it and debug before uploading to the web. -d [http://www.chait.net](http://www.chait.net) * Anonymous * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44222) * Hello there, correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see anyone mentioning EasyPHP. It’s another of these ready-to-use package, download from [http://www.easyphp.org](http://www.easyphp.org), run the exe-file and of you go! It’s a adminpage provided where you easily change/ add any settings, access the MySQL-server and so on. Works great for me. Included in package is Apache, MySQL, PHP works. //Robert * [zaaba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaaba/) * (@zaaba) * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44394) * I’ve been using this guide to installing MySQL, Apache, PERL and PHP on my WinXP Pro box for a while. A word of note though if you frequently format your computer. You might wanna install everything to a different drive say… D:/ and backup http. conf once you’re done with the install. That way, if you do format frequently as I do, all you need to do is install the necessary programs then overwrite the default http.conf with the backup and you’re up and running as before! [http://internetmaster.com/installtutorial/](http://internetmaster.com/installtutorial/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘OT: Server and PHP’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 9 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [zaaba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaaba/) * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ot-server-and-php/#post-44394) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics