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XAMPP

XAMPP is a free and open-source cross-platform web server that is primarily used when locally developing web applications.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to XAMPP

Apache HTTP Server Apache Tomcat Phusion Passenger Wildfly Laragon Gunicorn Apache ZooKeeper Unicorn web2py nginx

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to XAMPP are Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, and Phusion Passenger. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 50 social mentions

  2. An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Java 14 social mentions

  3. Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 1 social mentions

  4. WildFly is a flexible, lightweight application server.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions

  5. All in one web server.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Development Tools #Web Servers 54 social mentions

  6. Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 31 social mentions

  7. Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 29 social mentions

  8. Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Ruby Application Server 1 social mentions

  9. 9
    Web2py is an open source web application framework.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions

  10. 10
    A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 46 social mentions

  11. Cross-platform, Docker-based alternative to XAMPP.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Development Tools #Web Servers 16 social mentions

  12. 12
    The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 225 social mentions

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