:LinuxPlanet: Review: XAMPP--An Apache Server Stack
LinuxPlanet: Review: XAMPP--An Apache Server Stack Jun 10, 2005, 12 :15 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (10757 reads) (Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
"The cornerstone of most open source application serving is the ubiquitous LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl) stack. Yet it's not always as easy as you'd expect to get all the elements of the stack properly installed and working together. Enter XAMPP, which is an effort to provide a working stack that will provide all of the stack components (except for the OS) in one simple install. No messy ./configure commands required.
"The difficulty in getting Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and MySQL all properly compiled and working together is no laughing matter..."
