PHP Deployment (XAMPP)

This is a short introduction to help you deploy your PHP programs using XAMPP. For more information on XAMPP, please visit https://www.apachefriends.org/
(Please tell me if you find any errors or omissions in the document —Upsorn Praphamontripong, 26-May-2022)

XAMPP is an open source package that is widely used for PHP development. XAMPP contains MariaDB, PHP, and Perl; it provides a graphical interface for SQL (phpMyAdmin), making it easy to maintain data in a relational database.

If you have not installed XAMPP, please refer to XAMPP-setup to install and set up XAMPP.

Assuming that you have already set up XAMPP

Start the PHP environment ("Apache Web Server")

Reminder: be sure to stop the server when you are done. Leaving the servers running consumes energy and may later prevent the servers from starting.

Deploy a PHP app

Assume your project is named cs4640, create a folder called cs4640. In the cs4640 folder, create a blank file named helloworld.php. Paste the following contents in the file
```
<?php echo "Hello World @^_^@" ?>
```
Create a directory for your project in XAMPP/htdocs/. Put helloworld.php file under XAMPP/htdocs/cs4640/

Access an app

Be sure to start your web server. To access your app, open a web browser and enter a URL
http://localhost/cs4640/helloworld.php