When comparing XAMPP vs Vagrant, the Slant community recommends XAMPP for most people. In the question“What are the best Windows web development environment for PHP?” XAMPP is ranked 2nd while Vagrant is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose XAMPP is:
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Specs
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Pros
Pro Smooth installation with minimal configuration required
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Pro Multi-platform
XAMPP runs on OS X, Linux and Windows.
Pro Clean and functional interface
Pro Once correctly configured it is easy to expand the system and add new Projects
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Pro Cross-platform portability
Allows to work with coding tools of your choice, on any underlying platform and create portable virtualized soft dev environments that will work equally well on any operating system, be it Windows, MacOS or Linux.
Cons
Con Bloated
Comes with mail server, FTP server, accelerator, web-dav, ssl out of the box, etc.
Con doesnt has phpselector
Need downgrade to use php5
Con If you want to quickly get a PHP Environment going, this is not the best choice
You have to do some distinct editing of settings files in order to make it run the way you want.
