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If you have windows environment, use XAMPP, <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html" rel="ugc">http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html</a><br />
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It has php,mysql, apache
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If you have windows environment, use XAMPP, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]

It has php,mysql, apache

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On Windows?<br />
<a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html" rel="ugc">http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html</a>&nbsp;or<br />
<a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/" rel="ugc">http://www.wampserver.com/en/</a>
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On Windows?
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html] or
http://www.wampserver.com/en/ [http://www.wampserver.com/en/]

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On the site it says<br />
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&quot;The default configuration is not good from a security point of view and it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use XAMPP in such environment. &quot;<br />
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Can you tell me what that means?<br />
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I am using cPanel to load up my sites.
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On the site it says

"The default configuration is not good from a security point of view and it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use XAMPP in such environment. "

Can you tell me what that means?

I am using cPanel to load up my sites.

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Get a shared hosting account with any of the hosting companies that are listed in the <a href="http://php.net/thanks.php" rel="ugc">&quot;thanks to&quot; section of the PHP home page</a>. &nbsp;Just tell them what you want, and they will set up the correct environment for you.
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Get a shared hosting account with any of the hosting companies that are listed in the "thanks to" section of the PHP home page [http://php.net/thanks.php].  Just tell them what you want, and they will set up the correct environment for you.

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Don't use it for production servers until it is hardened (could say that for all apache installations) but you said this is for a development environment so security is not an issue.
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Don't use it for production servers until it is hardened (could say that for all apache installations) but you said this is for a development environment so security is not an issue.

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I am looking to setup a development environment for programming with PHP and MySQL database. I will also be using Joomla and Drupal. Can someone advise me on what is the (best) preferred environment to use for development.
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I am looking to setup a development environment for programming with PHP and MySQL database. I will also be using Joomla and Drupal. Can someone advise me on what is the (best) preferred environment to use for development.

PHP Environment, MySQL

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.