Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.
At the moment there are four XAMPP distributions:
XAMPP for LINUX
XAMPP for Windows
XAMPP for Mac OS
XAMPP for Solaris
XAMPP is free of charge
For info and download, see here: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Installing WordPress locally on Windows XP « It2tp said
[...] describe how you can use Xampp (see earlier post http://it2tp.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/xampp-apache-mysql-php-and-perl-easy/) to setup WordPress locally. I tested this with XP and indeed it’s easy and quickly done. I [...]