12 XAMPP Alternatives – Install WordPress On Windows And macOS Laptop

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XAMPP

XAMPP is by far the most popular PHP development environment, it is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. However, over the years, I find XAMPP becomes somewhat bloated, and as a person that only focus on WordPress, anything that is light and simple is what I need.

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DesktopServer

DesktopServer software makes your local installation of WordPress as easy as simply giving your site a name and clicking a few buttons. Choosing us as your workflow partner means you’ll spend less time doing the things you HAVE to do so you have more time to do the things you WANT to do!

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Local by Flywheel

One-click WordPress Installation – Local by Flywheel makes creating a local WordPress site a light breeze, so you don’t have to bother with setting it up yourself!

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WampServer

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLite Manager to easily manage your databases. WampServer automatically installs everything you need to intuitively develope Web applications. You will be able to tune your server without even touching its setting files. Best of all, WampServer is available for free (under GPML license) in both 32 and 64 bit versions. Wampserver is not compatible with Windows XP, SP3, or Windows Server 2003.

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MAMP

You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files! Furthermore, if MAMP is no longer needed, just delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original state (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” system).

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Laragon

Laragon doesn’t use Windows services. It has its own service orchestration which manages services asynchronously and non-blocking so you’ll find things run fast & smoothly with Laragon. Laragon is lightweight, fast and convenient modern LAMP Server with Redis and Memcached, extremely high performance. Laragon’ll turn your computer into a powerful server in a minute so you can host WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and Prestashop quickly and effortlessly.

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UwAmp Server

UwAmp is a Wamp Server with Apache MySQL PHP and SQLite, and it comes with an very smart interface that offers various information, configuration and commands for the server. It can handle multiple php versions and monitor cpu usage. Also it is able to run in U3 mode. UwAmp is available as a Zip archive, just unpack it and you can run the wamp server.

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EasyPHP

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AMPPS

AMPPS is a free Web development tool that installs in minutes and brings together database software like MySQL, and programming languages into a single, integrated experience. AMPPS lets you code, and test PHP, Perl & Python applications.

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WPИ-XM is an open source web server solution stack for professional PHP development on the Windows platform. In order to develop PHP web applications, a programmer needs to use an operating system, web server, database and PHP as programming language. If your operating system is Windows, then this solution stack might be the right choice for you.

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Kalabox

Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun! Kalabox installs like any other application: download it, drag it to your applications folder, and double-click. No command line instructions (although there is a CLI), no battling dependencies and messing around with folder permissions.

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Devilbox

The Devilbox is a modern and highly customisable dockerized PHP stack supporting full LAMP and MEAN and running on all major platforms. The main goal is to easily switch and combine any version required for local development.

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BAMP

BAMP (Brew+Apache+MongoDB+PHP) is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit. You only need to have installed the Homebrew in your system.

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