By Skandabhatt on

which is the best localhost server to run drupal?
acquia dev desktop or xammp or mamp?
Please reply with suggestions.

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Jaypan’s picture

Jaypan commented

As long as you have the AMP stack, it doesn't really matter.

Skandabhatt’s picture

Skandabhatt commented

Thanks jaypan
But still if you have to suggest one, which will you??

Jaypan’s picture

Jaypan commented

MAMP

Skandabhatt’s picture

Skandabhatt commented

Acquia dev desktop is specifically made for Drupal.
So i am more inclined to use acquia.

pacann81’s picture

pacann81 commented

CoreAMP

1. Apache 2.2.17

2. Mysql 5.1.56

3. PHP 5.2.17（ZendDebugger、ZendOptimizer） and PHP 5.3.5（XDebug、XCache）

4. Nginx 0.8.54

5. memcached 1.4.5

6. Subversion Server 1.6.12

7. PHPUnit 3.5.13

8. phpDocumentor 1.4.3

9. phpMyAdmin 3.3.10

I would highly recommend CoreAMP for your site.

Skandabhatt’s picture

Skandabhatt commented

I couldn't find coreAMP official website to download it.
reply me with link.

pacann81’s picture

pacann81 commented

Download Link: http://code.google.com/p/coreamp/downloads/list

And you can try WAMPServer5
WampServer installs automatically all you need to start developing web applications and is very intuitive to use. You will be able to tune your server without even touching the setting files. http://en.softonic.com/s/wamp-server-5

jdrichmond’s picture

jdrichmond commented

There are a lot of great suggestions here, but I didn't hear anyone mention OS. I would highly suggest use of a Mac for localhost development. There are a lot of opinions as to whether Linux, Mac, or Windows is the better Operating System. I don't want to throw fire on this issue, but there are some advantages in using the Mac OS for open source website development. I have found that many of the tools that I use in my production (CentOS) environment are available on the Mac.

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rowebil commented

Agree!

Your OS does count, too.

I'd rather work on an Ubuntu desktop machine, running server packages.
I just feel like you can remain more productive working in the same environment that your website will run on.

Windows is quite slow with basic drupal -- using Acquia.
On my ProLiant servers in my basement - a CentOS VM with less resources than my Windows machine, performs better.

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WorldFallz commented

You'll also want to consider the production environment you're planning to use. There are some subtleties of each environment that can lead to different issues. If you're not using the same environment for dev and prod you may experience different issues in the different environments. Having dev not match prod makes solving those things infinitely more difficult.