Here is a simple step-by-step procedure on how to setup XAMPP web server on windows. XAMPP is composed of Apache web server and MySQL and some other web tools. This is an0 open source web server software that lets you host your own personal website at home or in office. In this tutorial, I will only show the basic way on how you can make your website available online using XAMPP.
XAMPP Web Server Setup on Windows
- Download first the XAMPP software on their website and install it.
- Installing is just easy. You can set all to default setup. After installing XAMPP, you need to start the control panel and start Apache and MySQL.Then test it using your web browser by typing localhost on the address bar. You should see XAMPP default page when installation is successful. Be sure that port 80 or http port is not used by other services on your computer.
- To start XAMPP web server, just go to the directory where you install it and run xampp control panel. Start Apache and MySQL services.
- On phpMyAdmin, you can access the MySQL database and manage all your data used for your website. You need to secure phpmyadmin by setting up root password or every user that you add on MySQL must be secured with password.
- You can set phpMyAdmin root password in xampp_directory\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php .
You can edit this file by putting server password and setting allowing no password to false.
- Open your web browser and type localhost . It should redirect you to xampp default page. XAMPP web found in xampp directory then to htdocs folder. Htdocs folder is where you put your website files.
- You can set phpMyAdmin root password in xampp_directory\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php .
You can edit this file by putting server password and setting allowing no password to false.
- Then for your XAMPP web server availlable or reachable via internet, you need to figure out your router port-forward function. So when any web user searches your website address anywhere around the world, it be seen as long as it has internet connection. Port 80 will be forwarded or any port you like for your website. And also most important is that you will have a static public ip address for this to work out.
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