What is the difference between WAMP, LAMP, MAMP and XAMPP server?

Emily Routledge · Dec 29, 2016

Can any one tell me what is the difference between WAMP, LAMP, MAMP AND XAMPP server? are all these used for PHP websites and act as a local server? I would understand obviously on kind of servers. Many thanks!

nitaish · Dec 29, 2016

While AMP stands for Apache, MySQL and PHP, the first letter stands for the Operating System where you have these three packages installed. W in WAMP stands for Windows, L in LAMP stands for Linux, M in Mamp stands for Mac and XAMPP is a standalone installer which has all the three packages and is available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

Mujkanovic · Jan 7, 2017

Emily Routledge said:
Can any one tell me what is the difference between WAMP, LAMP, MAMP AND XAMPP server? are all these used for PHP websites and act as a local server? I would understand obviously on kind of servers. Many thanks!

All factors nitaish explained you.

XAMPP = X + Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl

nitaish said:
While AMP stands for Apache, MySQL and PHP, the first letter stands for the Operating System where you have these three packages installed. W in WAMP stands for Windows, L in LAMP stands for Linux, M in Mamp stands for Mac and XAMPP is a standalone installer which has all the three packages and is available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

If I am not wrong XAMPP only can be setup on a local PC and run as localhost.

overcast · Jul 18, 2017

WAMP stands for the Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. In case of LAMP, the operating system here is Linux and rest remains Apache, MySQL and php. XAMPP, is more of neutral to the OS. So they have build for both windows, Linux and mac. In case Mac the build is named as MAMP. Where the database choice is added with PostgreSQL or MySQL. You can choose either one of them during the download. That can give you some idea of these distributions. Not much difference other than type of OS it is running under.

secretlytaco · Aug 3, 2017

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP - which are the 4 main tools behind pretty much any website (although these days more and more are being written in python/ruby/other high level langs)
WAMP is the same as LAMP but running on Windows instead of linux, MAMP is on mac systems. IIRC people don't like to run these unless they have to because windows and macOS have much higher overhead (and so will run slower).

XAMPP is a portable system to install AMP+Perl on whatever system you want (although is mostly popular on windows, where it's the most difficult to setup a web server).

As a bonus, and so I'm not just repeating what everyone else has said, there's also a LEMP server, which is LAMP with the nginx web server instead of apache. Nginx is a much faster web server, with much more limited options, and is pronounced 'Engine X', hence the name LEMP.

Lene · Nov 15, 2017

The primary differentiator between Wamp, Lamp, Mamp and Xampp is the operating system (OS):

Lamp is for Linux.
Wamp is for Windows.
Mamp is for Mac OS X.
Xampp is for x-os, apache, mysql, php , perl.

LAMP-

1. The full form of Lamp is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP as it combines all four

2. Lamp is an open-source platform

3. It works on the Linux OS

4. Uses the Apache web server

6. Uses the Mysql relational database management system

7. PHP is the object-oriented scripting language.

WAMP-

1. The full form of Wamp is Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP as it combines all four

2. Wamp is an open-source platform

3. It works on the Windows OS

4. Uses the Apache web server

6. Uses the Mysql relational database management system

7. PHP is the object-oriented scripting language.

MAMP-

1. The full form of Mamp is MAC, Apache, MySQL and PHP as it combines all four

2. Mamp is an open-source platform.

3. It works on MAC OS

4. Uses the Apache web server

6. Uses the Mysql relational database management system

7. PHP is the object-oriented scripting language.

XAMPP-

1. The full form of Xampp is x-os, apache, mysql, php, perl

2. Xampp is an open-source platform

3. Includes X-OS because it can be used for all major OS such as Windows, Mac and Linux

4. Xampp also includes extra features like supporting perl, filezilla, mercury mail and some other scripts.

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