Wamp or Xampp for windows 7?

[rwsorensen]

I am using Appserv to run a local testing server on my PC but I have some problem with PHP version with it.
I heard about wamp and xampp, has anyone here tried both?
Please recommend me which server is easy to setup and managing?

 

[JOSourcing]

If you have Windows 7, you don't need either one of those. You can use what's already on your computer: IIS

 

[MightWeb]

IIS is an absolutely horrific web server.
Either one is fine. XAMPP has a richer featureset (that being it's not only a web server, it also has FTP servers, accelerators, SSL and so on). WAMP is much lighter.

My personal preference if I'm setting up a Windows testing environment is WAMP.

 

[JOSourcing]

JOSourcing

What makes it horrific? I used it for about a year and had an absolute ball with it.

 

[MightWeb]

MightWeb

Sorry, that's of course speaking from my own experience. Configuration is terrible, migrating is worse, it's built very statically and module support is lacking. Stability-wise it's also inferior to really any other web server I've ever tried. The only reason I could see IIS as a webserver is for people who want to make websites using C# for example. Then again, I would instead question why they would want to do that in the first place, heh!

 

[tk-hassan]

I would prefer to have XAMPP as it gives me more options.

 

[akuaja]

I suggest you to use xampp
7 years I have been using this