When comparing Laragon vs WampServer, the Slant community recommends Laragon for most people. In the question“What are the best php localhost servers?” Laragon is ranked 2nd while WampServer is ranked 4th. 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 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.
Pro Ultra customizable releases of Apps and Services
You can Install packages for differents releases of Apache Web Server, MySQL, MariaDB or PHP in order to have the latest releases of them.
Pro Customizable app menu items
You can customize the App menu Items for launch your local Website(s) in your prefered browser or even in alternatives http ports.
Pro Easy VirtualHost creation
Virtual hosts can be created at the click of a button
Cons
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.
Con phpMyadmin does not work
phpMyadmin cannot be accessed either without password or with root and blank password.
Con It's hard to configure VHOSTS
There's no easy way for creating or edit VHOSTS configs.
Con Hard to find documentation
No English manual available on the main website.
Con It's hard to configure VHOSTS
There's no easy way for creating or edit VHOSTS configs.