The computer I decided to make into my web server was an old 90 MHz Pentium computer with 40 MB of RAM and around a gigabyte of hard drive space, running Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3. I wanted to use the ...

Enter WampServer, an open source product that installs a PHP-apps-ready platform consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, plus several helpful GUI-based utilities.

If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

These are 5 of the best Xampp Server alternatives as they combine the three necessities - MySQL, PHP, and Apache, for a good testing software.