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I want to know what's the main difference between XAMPP or WAMP Server & IIS Server?
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XAMPP is more powerful and resource taking than WAMP. WAMP provides support for MySQL and PHP. XAMPP also has SSL feature while WAMP doesnt. If your applications need to deal with native web apps only, Go for WAMP.
XAMPP offers a major advantage of being compatible with a variety of operating systems. There are three different downloads available, for Windows, Linux, and macOS. WAMP, on the other hand, restricts users in that they cannot use it on machines running operating systems other than 32-bit or 64-bit Windows.
LAMP and WAMP are generic terms for any Apache web server, MySQL database, and Perl or PHP or Python language, based system. XAMPP is a specific software package that contains all the elements of an *AMP system in a single package. There are several packages like this (WampServer to name one).
WAMP is an acronym for Windows (OS), Apache (web-server), MySQL (database), PHP (language).
XAMPP and WampServer are both free packages of WAMP, with additional applications/tools, put together by different people. There are also other WAMPs such as UniformServer. And there are commercial WAMPs such as WampDeveloper (what I use).
Their differences are in the format/structure of the package, the configurations, and the included management applications.
IIS is a web-server application just like Apache is, except it's made by Microsoft and is Windows only (Apache runs on both Windows and Linux). IIS is also more geared towards using ASP.NET (vs. PHP) and "SQL Server" (vs. MySQL), though it can use PHP and MySQL too.
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WAMP: acronym for Windows Operating System, Apache(Web server), MySQL Database and PHP Language.
XAMPP: acronym for X (any Operating System), Apache (Web server), MySQL Database, PHP Language and PERL.
XAMPP and WampServer are both free packages of WAMP, with additional applications/tools, put together by different people.
Their differences are in the format/structure of the package, the configurations, and the included management applications.
In short: XAMPP supports more OSes and includes more features
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