XAMPP Control Panel

XAMPP Control Panel

It is an environment used to start Apache server and MySQL database server. After installation of XAMPP it short cut icon available on desktop.

To test whether XAMPP is running successfully or not, the URL address is http://localhost open this on any web browser.

Folder Structure of XAMPP

htdocs

It is a root directory of Apache server. All PHP programs we should save at this location.

php

This folder contains PHP configuration setting, php.ini is a configuration setting file.

Apache

This folder contains Apache configuration setting, httpd.conf is a configuration setting file available in conf folder of Apache folder.

tmp

It is a temporary location of Apache server, uploaded files and sessions will store at this location.

phpmyadmin

It is an IDE to work with MySQL database.

MySQL

In this folder MySQL configuration settings are available, my.ini is a MySQL configuration setting file available in bin folder of MySQL folder.