Using XAMPP To install Joomla on Windows 10 Topic is solved

[JamesTruelove]

Hi All

I wish to try out Joomla! 4 on windows 10 using XAMPP
Whenever I follow a link to install XAMPP on Windows 10 the link takes me to a download site for Windows 8?
Is there not a version to install on Windows 10?

Rgds James

[gws]

I would recommend Wampserver over Xampp, you can change DB and php versions on the fly with Wamp.

[JamesTruelove]

I am only just starting to think about trying out Joomla 4 on a Windows 10 laptop. There are a lot of different opinions on what software to use! I was just interested what people have used.
I gave up migrating to Joomla 4 on our live site due to the difficulty experienced. We decided to stick with Joomla 3.10 rather than subjecting ourselves to the work involved.

[ceford]

You might be interested in this:

https://docs.joomla.org/XAMPP

The Version 8 referred to seems to be the version of XAMPP rather than the version of Windows.

[JamesTruelove]

Ahhh I did not realise that. I assumed they were referring to the Windows version. Many thanks!

[Webdongle]

Wamp is preferable to xampp for many reasons

[AMurray]

XAMPP's versioning also indicates the version of PHP included I think (and so is only *one* version of PHP).

Where with WAMPServer you can use whatever PHP version you want - they have a full selection that you can add as add-in modules.

[Webdongle]

And with wamp you can switch php versions on the fly.

[JamesTruelove]

Eventually installed Joomla 4 successfully using WAMP on my Windows 10 laptop.
Now I can get to know J4 without risking production site!
Thanks to all

[toivo]

You may have found them already, but the sticky topics at the Wampserver Forum have the instructions and the alternative repo at https://wampserver.aviatechno.net/ has all the latest updates and extensions like PHP versions.

[Webdongle]

If you don't have Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable packages or (in some cases) if you have reinstalled your Windows files then you need to install the packages in order.

[JamesTruelove]

Thanks for the help