
Both these local servers play an important tool for web developers to test their websites locally. XAMPP is simple and lightweight compared to WAMPīoth XAMPP and WAMP are good local servers, each has its own advantages.In XAMPP you can add additional features like Perl, mercury mail, file server, and much more, whereas in WAMP you cannot add any additional features.You can start the process easily in XAMPP but just clicking the start button, whereas in WAMP there is no such button.WAMP provides support only for MySQL and PHP, whereas XAMPP provides support for MySQL, PHP, and Perl.Configuring and setting up XAMPP is very easy compared to WAMP.


XAMPP is considered as one of the lightweight local servers and very easy to set up and use. Then PHP and Perl are scripting languages, where PHP is a server-side scripting language and Perl is used to develop web applications. Then MariaDB is a database used to store your content, it is an updated version of MySQL. Apache is a web server that helps to carry your content through the internet. This software works in cross-platform like windows, Linux, Mac, etc. The word XAMPP stands for Cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB(MySQL), PHP, and Perl.

At any time they can start working with it even offline. Seems to be a wonderful tool for WordPress developers.

This local server is very useful for a web developer to develop and test their website, before making it live. You can just install it in your drive, starting up with the necessary services. This software works in Windows operating system, then the Apache webserver that runs in windows, the MySQL database is used to store the content of your website, and the process to connect all this using the scripting language PHP. The key elements representing WAMP is Operating System, web server, database, and programming language. The best advantage of using WAMP is that the set configuration is very easy. WAMP will work only in the Windows system. The word WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
