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Add to SafariWhen comparing XAMPP vs Laragon, the Slant community recommends Laragon for most people. In the question“What are the best php localhost servers?” Laragon is ranked 2nd while XAMPP is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Laragon is:
Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines. Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
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Pros
Pro Smooth installation with minimal configuration required
Port 443 is in use from Skype. You can change the port in Skype.
Pro Multi-platform
XAMPP runs on OS X, Linux and Windows.
Pro Clean and functional interface
Pro Fast and powerful
Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines.
Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
Pro Easily add new PHP version
Pro Lightweight
Pro Auto SSL
Pro Supports many databases
Such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
Pro Portable
You can move the Laragon folder around (to other disks, laptops, sync to Cloud, etc.) without any worries.
Pro Pretty URLs
Work with your "app" using this nice, short, beautiful url: http://app.test .
Pro Lightweight
The core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running.
Pro Easily add new Node.js version
Pro Great community support
Pro Linux support
You can install Laragon in Linux with the help of wine software.
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 Not working right out of the box, needs a lot of work to install basic components and has a lot of issues
Con Not intuitive
Poor documentation.
Con It is awesome but not available in Linux
There are many Linux developers so please make Laragon work on Linux.
Con Only support Windows
Con Difficult to install Laragon in Linux
You can install Laragon in Linux also with the help of wine software but it is difficult.
