Web Dev

1. Why You Need Older WordPress Versions Of course, running the latest version of WordPress is the best option for any website, but at times, there could be specific scenarios that may require working with an ‘older’ version of WordPress. For example, a very common scenario is when you may...

1. Introduction Installing WordPress on your computer helps you try out WordPress, test themes and plugins, and learn WordPress development.  It lets you operate a website within your own computer. The website isn’t visible to other people. So, you can make an experiment with the design components, plugins, settings, etc....

Apache has made it very easy to have multiple websites or web applications running on the same physical server, and access each using a custom domain name. This is known as virtual hosting, and each virtual host can be mapped to a different subdirectory of the server. 1. What are...

Why change Apache Port By Default, Apache runs HTTP on port 80 and SSL on port 443 in XAMPP. Generally, you may need to change the port number for the following reasons : For customized network design. For security purposes. For resolving port conflicts with other applications. For example, users commonly report a conflict...

Why run XAMPP as-admin The XAMPP is recommended to be executed as-admin as it requires running a couple of system services such as Apache, MySQL etc. Also if you have not installed Apache or MySQL as system services, the XAMPP services may still require to access and operate custom system...

What is XAMPP The full form of XAMPP stands for Cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB (MySQL), PHP and Perl. It is one of the simplest and lightweight local servers or more precisely a package of bundled open-source software containing standard web development tools to develop/test your website locally. It is available as open-source...