XAMPP is a freeware, under GPL license, easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
The purpose of XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache. To make it convenient for developers XAMPP is configured with all features turned on. Default configuration is not good from a securtiy point of view and it's not secure enough for a production environment - please don't use XAMPP in such environment. However, since LAMPP 0.9.5 you can make your XAMPP installation secure by calling »/opt/lampp/lampp security«. More about security can be found here.
In order to install XAMPP without the installer download and unzip the zip archives into a folder of your choice. XAMPP is extracting to the subdirectory "[Ziel]\xampp" below the selected target directory. Then start the file "setup_xampp.bat", to adjust the XAMPP configuration to your system. If you choose a root directory "C:\" as target, you must not start "setup_xampp.bat".
For more information about installation without installer click here.