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Dear All,

I have been spending many days and nights trying to setup XAMPP (7.2) on a Windows 2008 R2 instance.
I have Java Version 7 installed and am trying to install via Admin rights in a custom directory.

Post the installation, the services fail to come up except for Tomcat.

Can you please guide if there are compatibility issues reported with this OS version?

I need to have the latest version of XAMPP installed with latest Apache/Tomcat to rule out any vulnerabilities.

Please suggest.

Best Regards

Hi,

If you are aware of vulnerabilities XAMPP is the wrong product for you.
Better install the single components all on its own and configure them.
Advantages are that you have full control about the configuration and can update any of the components on its own. (which is not possible with XAMPP).

best wishes,
Altrea

Thanks Altrea,

I need to try at least. But cant seem to get the XAMPP 7.2 working on Windows 2008 R2 (64).
Are there known compatibility issues on this OS for the latest version?

Regards

That is not a question of trying. Once a month i have to answer the same question. XAMPP is local test and development environment. It is not hardened and will not focus on security. The XAMPP developers are not responsible to fix any known or unknown security issues.
XAMPP gets released nearly once a month. So if a security issue is released a day after a XAMPP release it can take more than a month to the next XAMPP release maybe fixing this version. XAMPP is not updateable, so every XAMPP version change is always a fresh installation/migration (backup and restore) of all webapplications and settings.
So, if you are aware of any security issues, security assessments or anything similar, don't use XAMPP.

And no, i don't have any information about incompatibilities or bugs relating XAMPP 7.2.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2.