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XAMPP (/ ˈ z æ m p / or / ˈ ɛ k s. æ m p /) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
The Apache HTTP Server (/ ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / ə-PATCH-ee) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.It is developed and maintained by a community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.
PHP development began in 1993 [9] when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C, [20] [21] which he used to maintain his personal homepage.He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI.