Production Grade Server Software

Question

I am currently using XAMPP to test and Run my website on my Laptop.

Is there any (Good,Production Grade,Free,AMP based) server software?

Or Can I manually fix the security holes in XAMPP (like no password for 'root') to bring it up to production level?

Platform : Windows Technologies: Apache, MySQL, PHP Requirements: Hosting on Own server Priveleges: Easy installation and configuration

Answer 1

You're best off just setting things up yourself. It's not that difficult, especially since there are scores and scores of guides around the web. Trying to bring XAMPP up to production quality would be just as much work. Here are some links:

• Ubuntu LAMP
• Debian LAMP
• Fedora LAMP
• Arch Linux LAMP
• WAMP (Windows)

You can easily find more by doing a Google search.

Answer 2

Why not simply use official Apache? It's the most-used Production http server in the world.

Can you expand your question with details on your platform and requirements?

Answer 3

You would be better off configuring the full stack yourself. This ensures that you know what's running, and how it's configured. Even if you use a bundle (I highly recommend Zend Server if you do), you would need to run through the service configurations anyway. Never rely on anything out-of-box in a production environment.

If you do configure the stack yourself, Google is your friend, and there are plenty of resources here to help as well.