In this guide, I have described how to install and configure a XAMPP Server on Windows 10. XAMPP is a free and open-source tool, used for testing purposes.

That will launch XAMPP's Control Panel, which lets you start all the services you need. To run MediaWiki, you need two services: Apache web server, and the MySql database server.

With Microsoft Windows and macOS, the XAMPP Project provides MySQL along with phpMyAdmin as a pack-in. The XAMPP control panel provides one-click access to phpMyAdmin.

In addition to Apache, MySQL, and PHP, XAMPP includes thephpMyAdmin database administration tool, FileZilla FTP server,Mercury mail server, Perl programming language, and JSP serverTomcat.

A fresh installation of the XAMPP Control Panel on a Windows device doesn’t hold the root password for MySQL PHPMyAdmin. In such a case, it could be easily accessible to everyone and that ...