Again, like WAMP, XAMPP is an easy installation albeit about twice the time for the installer to simply copy files. But the system includes Mercury Mail which is an SMTP, POP3 and IMPA4 server. Cool.

Effortlessly install a development server running Apache, MySQL, and PHP with XAMPP for Windows.

Apache is an open source Web server and a free alternative to commercial server operating systems. Apache can serve pages in most any Web scripting language such as PHP, Perl and Python; it also ...