Tuesday 23 February 2021

Installing PHP Server - XAMPP in Windows

Installing XAMPP in Windows OS

  • Go to this link "https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html"
  • Choose latest xampp version for windows
  • After clicking exe file will be downloaded in your machine
  • Right click on the downloaded file and click run as administrator
  • Click Next
  • Again click Next
  • Now, Change folder from "C:\" drive to "D:\" drive or any other
  • Click Next
  • Click Next
  • Click Next
  • Click Next, now installation will start
  • After installation, click XAMPP Control Panel from windows menu and Start the Apache, MySQL and Tomcat Module


  • Now, type "localhost" in the browser address bar and you will see the following screen:
  • Now create a simple php file(example: test.php) in the notepad and save the file in "D:\xampp\htdocs folder"
  • Now in the web browser address bar type "localhost/test.php" and see output as follows:
test.php

<?php
echo "Welcome to php";
?>




Thank you