XAMPP 8.18.1.25-0

XAMPP 8.1 creates a local web-server environment on Windows, letting you run and test PHP websites and database-backed applications on your own computer. Apache serves the project, MariaDB stores its data, and PHP and Perl provide the programming runtimes needed by many web projects. The bundled XAMPP Control Panel provides a central way to manage the local services, while phpMyAdmin offers a browser-based interface for administering MariaDB databases.

The 8.1.25-0 release combines PHP 8.1.25 with Apache 2.4.58, MariaDB 10.4.32, phpMyAdmin 5.2.1, OpenSSL 3.1.3, curl 8.4.0_6, and Tomcat 8.5.96. It also includes Perl, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System, FileZilla FTP Server, and Strawberry Perl, with Tomcat supporting mod_proxy_ajp as a connector. These bundled services give developers a practical test environment for dynamic sites, database work, server-side scripts, and Java web applications without assembling each component separately.

Apache Friends publishes this open-source System Tools package for x64 Windows systems, including Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, 2008, and 2012; Windows XP and 2003 are unsupported. It suits students, web developers, and administrators who need to prototype, learn, or validate applications locally before deploying them to a hosted server. The project’s documentation is organized as FAQs, with community help also available through its forums and Stack Overflow.