XAMPP Installation, Configuration and Drupal Installation on Windows

If you are interested in web development or application development using PHP or Perl on Windows then XAMPP is also an option, besides WAMP. XAMPP is an easy to install cross platform web server solution stack package containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl.  (Update 2016: XAMPP now has Maria Db instead of My Sql).

In this post, we shall see how to install XAMPP on Windows computer, do some basic configuration for localhost, phpMyAdmin access and then install Drupal Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is an open-source, roboust and highly customize-able CMS solution for building great websites.


Software requirements:
1. Download XAMPP from Apache Friends
2. Download Drupal from Drupal.org.

Watch this short video tutorial covering  XAMPP installation on Windows computer, some basic configuration for localhost, phpMyAdmin access and Drupal Content Management System (CMS) installation.




You can also check out How to install and run XAMPP on Windows? (Guide)

After installing XAMPP on Windows, we can host any PHP website or CMS such as Drupal, Joomla or WordPress.