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Install XAMPP.

XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.

  1. Go to Apache Friends and download XAMPP.
  2. Install XAMPP on your laptop.
  3. Validate the installation by running the xampp_control. You should see a GUI something like: XAMPP Control
  4. Check out the FAQs for your particular OS.

We’ll be using the Apache server to serve up our HTML and CSS files.