Laragon is a light-weight WAMP Server. Compared to XAMPP, it loads much faster and starts local-server instantly from the second run (initializes when you run for the first time). In terms of size, it's much smaller than XAMPP. Being light-weight, Laragon also has some special features:
Laragon has different kind of versions:
Laragon Full: Includes all supported packages.
Laragon Lite: Includes essential packages only. We can add more packages from Menu > Tools > Quick Add option, if needed.
Laragon Mint: Only includes the packages needed to run a local-server. Like Apache, MySQL and PHP. We can add more packages like the lite version.
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- HeidiSQL:
It's an open-source database management software. It can handle MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Whereas, XAMPP's default "phpMyAdmin" can only handle MySQL and MariaDB. Whatever, if we need phpMyAdmin , we can add it easily (Menu > Tools > Quick Add > phpMyAdmin). But, if we install phpMyAdmin, clicking on Database option in Laragon will open phpMyAdmin on browser instead of opening HeidiSQL. - AutoVirtualHosts/Pretty URL:
If AutoVirtualHosts is turned on in Settings, it will automatically create Virtual host by the name of the project's folder whenever we add one. Example: If we create a folder named "myproject", we can browse the project on browser by typing myproject.test instead of localhost/myproject. - Quick Add:
We can install packages automatically with this function. Going to Menu > Tools > Quick Add option, we can auto-install supported packages to Laragon. Supported packages are: Nginx, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, MariaDB, Robomongo, Git, Node Js, Yarn, MongoDB, Python, PostgreSQL, Go, Ruby, Java etc. - Mail Catcher:
As we can't recieve mail in our inbox from local-server, Mail Catcher will store any mail sent from local server in an output folder as a *txt file. Location of the output folder: Menu > PHP > Mail Catcher > Open Mail Dir.
Laragon Full: Includes all supported packages.
Laragon Lite: Includes essential packages only. We can add more packages from Menu > Tools > Quick Add option, if needed.
Laragon Mint: Only includes the packages needed to run a local-server. Like Apache, MySQL and PHP. We can add more packages like the lite version.
Downlaod from: Yandex Disk [45MB]
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