I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

For those of you who followed along with the Lifehacker feature on how to set up a personal home web server, developer Jeff Lundberg takes it to the next level, adding instructions on how to add PHP, ...

XAMPP is a free and open-source tool that is basically used to create a local copy of the site on your computer for testing purposes. This lightweight, cross-platform application makes it quite simple ...

To get started, you should have two software – WAMP and the Drupal package. WAMP is a software stack consisting of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. First, you will have to install WAMP on Windows. In ...