XAMPP VS WAMP 64 BIT

WAMP is better choice because you can switch between multiple If you are running projects which have specific version requirements

XAMPP VS WAMP 64 BIT

WAMP is Available for both 64 bit and 32-bit system.

It possesses many other essential modules such as phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla and more. (x-os means it can use for any operating system) Advantages of XAMPP: XAMPP stands for X-os, Apache, Mysql, Php, Perl. WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, Mysql, Php IIS supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP. IIS acronym for Internet Information Server also an extensible web server initiated as a research project for for Microsoft NT.IIS can be used for making Web applications, search engines, and Web-based applications that access databases such as SQL Server within Microsoft OSs. XAMPP also has SSL feature which WAMP doesn't.(Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a networking protocol that manages server authentication, client authentication and encrypted communication between servers and clients. XAMPP is more resource consuming than WAMP because of heavy amount of internal component softwares like Tomcat, FileZilla FTP server, Webalizer, Mercury Mail etc.So if you donot need high features better to go with WAMP. XAMPP has a control panel from that you can start and stop individual components (such as MySQL,Apache etc.). If you want to use Perl with WAMP you can configure Perl with WAMPServer but it is better to go with XAMPP.

WAMPServer provide an option to switch among many versions of Apache, many versions of PHP and many versions of MySQL all installed which provide more flexibility towards developing while XAMPPServer doesn't have such an option.

WAMPServer has a graphical user interface to switch on or off individual component softwares while it is running. WAMP cannot be run parallel with XAMPP because with default installation XAMPP gets priority and it takes up ports. XAMPP (x-os : it can be used on any OS )īoth can be used to easily run and test websites and web applications locally.

Xampp vs wamp