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Apache + PHP + mySQL server in your pocket!

June 12, 2006 by in Geeky,Howto,Tech with 6 Comments

If you are a web developer who uses LAMP this IS A MUST!

I was discussing portable apps with a french friend of mine [thank you sebastien] and he pointed out to me some french software called easyPHP. I told him he was crazy and to prove it… a PHP, Apache, mySQL server with phpMyAdmin… in your pocket, and portable to use where ever or whenever the need should arise… this CAN’T be!

Well… I was wrong, after a quick download of the 1.8 installation package I ran the install and pointed the directory to my USB drive… and it worked. In no time I was using calls to localhost and phpInfo().

Get your hands on a copy now… I will forever carry my server in my pocket from now on.

get yours now


  • psyber

    I’ve been using slax (http://www.slax.org) for years to do development. One thing to remember about running a db on a USB drive is the limited number of writes that you get. Granted its in the millions, but many production dbs do that number of transactions in a matter of hours.

  • TT

    Yeah, webserver on a stick (wos) is really good too…I’ve been using it for a long while now…
    http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm

  • chadillac

    forgot to mention this is windows only.

  • fernyb

    oh come on, stop the using windows.

  • chad

    well if you find random linux boxes in most locations where you might need to actually use this more power to ya.. however I can’t think of to many laptops/desktops/pay clients computers are running linux… ;)

  • http://jan.rshost.de Jan

    LAMP = Linux Apache MySQL PHP…Why does there come a Windows application? Another tool I use for Portable Use is XAMPP Lite. has Perl suppert, too. Do you have an idea, if there is something like this, but for linux?

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