Buat Webserver dengan XAMPP di Windows ~ Catatanku

Mungkin ini minggu-minggu terberat bagi saya. Selain pekerjaan utama, aku mendapat tugas tambahan membuat sistem informasi berupa web yang berjalan di server windows. Mungkin hal ini tidaklah terlalu berat jika aku memfokuskan diri disini, tapi sekali lagi, ini tugas tambahan yang dikejar oleh waktu dan harus segera launcing dengan sedikit kesalahan tapi banyak manfaat. Dalam pikiranku pakai apakah yang cocok…. wordpress, Jomla atau forum yg pakai phpBB ?

Wow…. server yang “diberikan” termasuk lumayan.. Intel Xeon 3GHz HD 250 GB X 2. Sistem Operasi Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Webservernya pakai apa ya ? Setelah kucoba-coba sepertinya pakai gabungan apache, mysql dan php lebih cocok dari pada pakai IIS, SQL server dan ASP. Apa harus pasang satu-satu, apache sendiri, mysql sendiri dan php sendiri….Tidak. Banyak memakan waktu ! Kupasang saja XAMP for Windows…. lebih simple.

Apa XAMPP itu ?

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. The program is released under the GNU General Public License and acts as a free, easy-to-use web server capable of serving dynamic pages. XAMPP is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X, and is mainly used for web development projects.

XAMPP requires only one zip, tar or exe file to be downloaded and run, and little or no configuration of the various components that make up the web server is required. XAMPP is regularly updated to incorporate the latest releases of Apache/MySQL/PHP and Perl. It also comes with a number of other modules including OpenSSL and phpMyAdmin.

Because its user interface is considered simple to use, it is sometimes called the “lazy man’s WAMP/LAMP installation.”

Installing XAMPP takes less time than installing each of its components separately. Self-contained, multiple instances of XAMPP can exist on a single computer, and any given instance can be copied from one computer to another.

It is offered in both a full, standard version and a smaller version (known as XAMPP Lite). Add-on extension modules also are available.

Officially, XAMPP’s designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default. In practice, however, XAMPP is sometimes used to actually serve web pages on the World Wide Web. A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package. XAMPP also provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MySQL and SQLite among others.