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You’ll need to install XAMPP-VM for Mac to be able to install XAMPP addons separately. For MacOS, you’ll need to install WordPress directly in XAMPP’s site directory as recently OS X native modules have been deprecated.

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From there, it offers links to download bitnami modules for WordPress and other applications. Maybe it’s because I’m used to a more app-based approach but it took me a bit to realize that most of XAMPP’s interface exists as a web app on localhost. SHAMP’s XAMPP’s interface, at least on MacOS, is less than intuitive. This time the server started up as expected. It just tried forever to start its server.Īfter my failed attempt, I created a MacOS virtual machine so that I could provide XAMPP with the completely blank slate that it needed. Unfortunately, XAMPP never gave me any errors that I could track down. I chalked this up to the fact that I already had MAMP and Local installed on that machine and there was probably some conflict. Once the install was complete and I found the app that I needed to run (hint for users of Alfred/Spotlight as app launchers: it’s not called “XAMPP”, it is intuitively called “Application Manager”), I couldn’t get the server to start up. The installer ran fine but that’s about all it did. I first tried installing XAMPP under a new user on my Mac laptop. Installing XAMPP seems easy enough: just download the correct installer from their website and run it. Though you can also find the Perl command line tool optionally available in MAMP Pro. XAMPP stands for X-platform Apache MariaDB, PHP and Perl – It’s definitely the only local server that still touts Perl support as a major feature, so if you like to keep it TMTOWTDI, then this is definitely the one for you. XAMPP, which you may be surprised to find out is pronounced “Shamp”, is probably the oldest local development environment around and possibly the most complex. Let’s have a more in-depth look at these local WordPress development environments. I personally make use of WP-CLI on a daily basis and this is what’s keeping me from switching to Local completely from MAMP Pro. You’ll need to go through their application to open the SSH container separately for each site. You can’t directly just enter in the working directory and execute CLI commands. If you’re making use of WP-CLI in your daily workflow, you might dislike Local.

The rest of the applications offer paid versions with more features.

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If you’re looking for a free alternative, XAMPP and Local are clear choices here. While Local and DesktopServer allow you to customize domain names for local sites, XAMPP and MAMP (unless you’re using Pro) don’t. The major differences between MAMP, XAMPP, DesktopServer, and Local is the ability to manage multiple sites and ease of use. There are quite a few different applications and tools that fit this bill, but for now we’ll be comparing the four GUI-based tools that seem to me to be the largest players in this space: XAMPP, MAMP (Pro), DesktopServer, and Local. We have another complete article covering Laravel Valet, VVV ( Vagrant), Chassis, etc. Note that I won’t be covering CLI-based local dev environments in this article. So we need something that’s easy to use and will do most of the heavy lifting for us. Most of all though, you shouldn’t have to be a sysadmin in order to be able to spin up, maintain, and tear down development environments on your local server. Being able to switch those on the fly or at least select different configs for different dev sites is extremely helpful.

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If you’re developing a WordPress theme or plugin, it’s also often necessary to make sure that your code runs well on different servers, under different versions of PHP and MySQL. For example: most devs work on more than one project, so it’s extremely helpful to be able to quickly spin up a new web server with dedicated urls. While many computers are capable of hosting a WordPress site without needing to install any extra packages, there are a few advantages that a dedicated local development environment can offer. It also greatly reduces the risk of making and breaking changes on a live web server. Developing in a local environment lets you make changes to dev sites quickly and easily without having to transfer files anywhere. An easy-to-use local testing server is one of the most important tools in a WordPress developer’s utility belt.