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There are various reasons why you would want to set up your own web server such as developing dynamic web applications locally for testing purposes or if you would like to just host your website from your computer.

You can approach the situation from different angles either installing and configuring each individual package seperately (e.g. PHP, Apache, mySQL). Or using a prepackaged system otherwise know as AMP packages (Apache, mySQL, PHP). There are various packages for all types of operating systems or requirements.

If you are on windows i would recommend Wamp Server It was easy to install and operate aswell as including all the functionality that i needed. For Mac i have only used MAMP which is suitable for the job and includes a widget for enabling it’s features although I’ve had some difficulties with enabling mySQL on this install and may switch to the XAMPP a feature rich AMP package which includes more then just a standard AMP release. However there are more packages available then this which you can find some more on Wikipedia

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