I’ve been going around setting up open source software a fair bit recently. To minimise the pain of explaining it, I’m putting together a short videos that explain the process.
Here’s the first, on XAMPP, which is a starting point for most open source applications. It bundles Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Perl and PHP.
To install it, search and download “XAMPP for Windows”, and press enter for every question. Then install your application under C:\xampp\htdocs. That’s it.
Good one..
Recently I had to install XAMP (no need for Perl, yet..) and I went with Windows Platform Installer. Found it much more simple and easy… http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx