Sending mail via Mercury on localhost using codeigniter and XAMPP

This is my first time to use Mercury on XAMPP, I never had a mail project before so I guess I’m gonna blog it for future reference. Obviously, we will be using SMTP to send mails and POP3 to receive them. Since we do not have sendmail installed in Windows

Setting up Virtual Hosts with XAMPP running on Windows XP

Setting up virtual hosts with XAMPP is very straight forward and could be done in less than 5 minutes. Although, your local XAMPP server will still work even if virtual hosts are not configured. You might want to ask, is there a need for my local XAMPP setup to configure

Could not bind to address error with XAMPP or Apache

i kept on forgetting this until i reinstalled xampp. i keep receiving this error, and i am sure IIS was not installed with my windows xp installation. Installing Apache2.2 as an Service Installing the Apache2.2 service The Apache2.2 service is successfully installed. Testing httpd.conf…. Errors reported here must be corrected

Enable curl with XAMPP on Windows XP or 7

cURL stands for Client for URLs. It allows us to transfer files having URL syntax. It supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. To enable curl library with XAMPP we need to modify the php.ini files in our xampp folder. Note that new

XAMPP All-in-one-webserver

XAMPP is a web development tool containing the essential applications in rapidly deploying web applications. XAMPP contains thefollowing: 1) Apache HTTP Server, 2) MySQL Database Server 3) ProFTPD Server 4) PHP 5) Perl 6) phpMyAdmin 7) OpenSSL Initially XAMPP stands for X-, A-pache, M-ySQL, P-HP, P-erl. XAMPP may be installed