Portable Webserver

Server Config
1

I would like to use a portable webserver, so that I can continue learning at home and at work.
Does anyone know of one that will either work out of the box or is simple to config (by simple, a child could do it)?

Thank you

2

If you run Windows at Home and Work, you can use Xampp and install it to a Flash Drive (which is what I’ve done).

It can handle PHP, Perl, Tomcat, Mail Server, etc all from your flash drive, has an easy to use control panel to start/stop all of the services, etc.

3

Thank you. I shall have a look and give it a try :slight_smile:

4

One thing to note, be sure to put it in the root folder of your flash drive.

Example: My flash drive is labeled “M:” when I plug it in, I installed Xampp to “M:\xampp”

If you try and install it further down, it messes up (for whatever reason)…

5

Thank you
I have managed to get it to work :smiley:

6

In 2014 a much better way to do this is use something like vagrant to make the whole environment portable and repeatable.

Given the write limits of thumb drives I’d be nervous about using that as a tool for this – the log file writes will kill that USB drive real quick.

7

That maybe, but I am using an external hard drive, be it USB based.
For learning this should be fine :smiley:

8

I’m trying to start phpMyAdmin and I’m getting this error: The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration.

I have removed the ; from ;extension=php_mbstring.dll and it still doesn’t work

Any ideas?
Thank you