<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
(	O
or	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
web	B-Application
server	I-Application
solution	B-Application
stack	I-Application
package	O
developed	O
by	O
Apache	B-Application
Friends	I-Application
,	O
consisting	O
mainly	O
of	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
HTTP	I-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
MariaDB	B-Application
database	O
,	O
and	O
interpreters	B-Application
for	O
scripts	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
Perl	B-Language
programming	I-Language
languages	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
most	O
actual	O
web	B-Application
server	I-Application
deployments	O
use	O
the	O
same	O
components	O
as	O
XAMPP	B-Application
,	O
it	O
makes	O
transitioning	O
from	O
a	O
local	O
test	O
server	O
to	O
a	O
live	O
server	O
possible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
's	O
ease	O
of	O
deployment	O
means	O
a	O
WAMP	B-Language
or	O
LAMP	B-Application
stack	I-Application
can	O
be	O
installed	O
quickly	O
and	O
simply	O
on	O
an	O
operating	O
system	O
by	O
a	O
developer	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
advantage	O
that	O
common	O
add-in	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
WordPress	B-Application
and	O
Joomla	B-Protocol
!	I-Protocol
</s>
<s>
can	O
also	O
be	O
installed	O
with	O
similar	O
ease	O
using	O
Bitnami	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
XAMPP	B-Application
is	O
an	O
apparent	O
acronym	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
there	O
is	O
no	O
official	O
acronym	O
expansion	O
specified	O
on	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
Friends	I-Application
website	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Their	O
homepage	O
header	O
reads	O
"	O
XAMPP	B-Application
Apache	B-Application
+	O
MariaDB	B-Application
+	O
PHP	B-Application
+	O
Perl	B-Language
"	O
,	O
indicating	O
that	O
this	O
abbreviation	O
is	O
a	O
recursive	O
acronym	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MySQL	B-Application
was	O
replaced	O
with	O
MariaDB	B-Application
on	O
19	O
October	O
2015	O
and	O
beginning	O
with	O
XAMPP	B-Application
versions	O
5.5.30	O
and	O
5.6.14	O
,	O
effectively	O
altering	O
the	O
meaning	O
of	O
the	O
acronym	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
both	O
letters	O
P	O
are	O
de	O
facto	O
interchangeable	O
,	O
the	O
convention	O
used	O
at	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
Friends	I-Application
website	O
indicates	O
that	O
the	O
first	O
letter	O
P	O
is	O
short	O
for	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
the	O
latter	O
letter	O
P	O
is	O
short	O
for	O
Perl	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
requires	O
only	O
one	O
zip	B-General_Concept
,	O
tar	B-Application
,	O
7z	O
,	O
or	O
exe	O
file	O
to	O
be	O
downloaded	O
and	O
run	O
,	O
and	O
little	O
or	O
no	O
configuration	O
of	O
the	O
various	O
components	O
that	O
make	O
up	O
the	O
web	B-Application
server	I-Application
is	O
required	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Windows	O
version	O
of	O
XAMPP	B-Application
requires	O
Microsoft	O
Visual	O
C++	O
2017	O
Redistributable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
is	O
regularly	O
updated	O
to	O
the	O
latest	O
releases	O
of	O
Apache	B-Application
,	O
MariaDB	B-Application
,	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
Perl	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
comes	O
with	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
other	O
modules	O
,	O
including	O
OpenSSL	B-Language
,	O
phpMyAdmin	B-Application
,	O
MediaWiki	B-Application
,	O
Joomla	B-Protocol
,	O
WordPress	B-Application
and	O
more	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Self-contained	O
,	O
multiple	O
instances	O
of	O
XAMPP	B-Application
can	O
exist	O
on	O
a	O
single	O
computer	O
,	O
and	O
any	O
given	O
instance	O
can	O
be	O
copied	O
from	O
one	O
computer	O
to	O
another	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
is	O
offered	O
in	O
both	O
a	O
full	O
and	O
a	O
standard	O
version	O
(	O
Smaller	O
version	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
most	O
obvious	O
characteristic	O
of	O
XAMPP	B-Application
is	O
the	O
ease	O
at	O
which	O
a	O
WAMP	B-Language
webserver	B-Application
stack	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
and	O
instantiated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
,	O
some	O
common	O
packaged	O
applications	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
easily	O
installed	O
were	O
provided	O
by	O
Bitnami	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Officially	O
,	O
XAMPP	B-Application
's	O
designers	O
intended	O
it	O
for	O
use	O
only	O
as	O
a	O
development	O
tool	O
,	O
to	O
allow	O
website	O
designers	O
and	O
programmers	O
to	O
test	O
their	O
work	O
on	O
their	O
own	O
computers	O
without	O
any	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
Internet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
has	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
serve	O
web	O
pages	O
on	O
the	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XAMPP	B-Application
also	O
provides	O
support	O
for	O
creating	O
and	O
manipulating	O
databases	O
in	O
MariaDB	B-Application
and	O
SQLite	B-Language
,	O
among	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
XAMPP	B-Application
is	O
installed	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
possible	O
to	O
treat	O
a	O
local	B-Protocol
host	I-Protocol
like	O
a	O
remote	O
host	O
by	O
connecting	O
using	O
an	O
FTP	B-Protocol
client	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
a	O
program	O
like	O
FileZilla	B-Application
has	O
many	O
advantages	O
when	O
installing	O
a	O
content	B-Protocol
management	I-Protocol
system	I-Protocol
(	O
CMS	O
)	O
like	O
Joomla	B-Protocol
or	O
WordPress	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
possible	O
to	O
connect	O
to	O
localhost	B-Protocol
via	O
FTP	B-Protocol
with	O
an	O
HTML	B-General_Concept
editor	I-General_Concept
.	O
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