How to Set Up A Testing Server on Your PC

November 22nd, 2007

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How to Set Up A Testing Server on Your PC

Quick Painless Install and Set Up for FREE

If you have a website or do any type of web development you have probably needed a server at some point. Not everybody has a full blown commercial web server at their disposal for development, experimenting, and testing their site. You may think that it is both expensive and complicated to have your own local web server.

You may think that it is both expensive and complicated to have your own local web server. Nothing Could be further from the truth!

Nothing could be further from the truth. True, you do need a few pieces of specialized software that can be complicated to install and configure. However, there is a wonder application bundle that has all of the key components of a web hosting server bundled up and configured in a simple wizard driven installer.

“What is the modern miracle”, you say? Why, it’s XAMPP!
XAMPP is an open source project built by the people at ApacheFriends.org. Actually, it’s a compilation of several pieces of open source software bundled together to make a robust, powerful, feature-packed web server. Best of all, it’s all FREEEEEE!

What Do You Need to Set Up Your Own Local Server?

There are four main components to a web server:

Web Server – Serves Pages to the Browser (HTML, PHP, JSP, etc.)
Application Server – Processes “Requests” from Web Pages (Queries, Calculations, Transactions, etc.)
Database Server – Collects, Stores, and Supplies data to “Applications” (Names, Dates, Products, Documents, etc.)
Email Server – Handles receipt and delivery of Email to and from Internet (Internet to You -OR- You to the Internet)

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