XAMPP and WAMP in the LAMP, what's the best? [closed]

Answer 1

It all depends on what you are comfortable administering. Any of these setups can be stable, robust, and secure if its properly set up.

Answer 2

For me, it depends on your specialization. They are both works great and reliable.

Answer 3

Using Wamp, the new version has xdebug pre-installed, which is nice for me since the first time I tried to install xdebug, it took me ages <_<

Haven't tried Xampp, but just seeing that it doesn't have xdebug bundled I backed off from trying :P

Answer 4

I tried XAMPP and gave up...I faced an issue with backslashes(widows uses forward slashes)..due to this none of my scripts could save any files to folders because the path would be like dir1\dir2\folder/image_folder/image.jpg...I tried WAMP it worked like a charm..it threw no errors and saved the image files as intented...so..I guess I will stick to WAMP...I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how the "madslashes" issue is fixed on XAMPP..I googled furiously..without any luck..thanks

Answer 5

http://www.formboss.net/blog/2010/02/hosting-php-linux-vs-windows-benchmarks/

He seemed pretty happy with stock mysql/apache/php

Answer 6

I use WIMP on a project, and it's ok, not anything to write home about:

WIMP: Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP