Running Xampp for multiple users

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Running Xampp for multiple users

Postby TejasN » 19. March 2021 06:09

I have a Windows Server 2019 machine in which multiple users can login simultaneously via remote desktop. Both the users need to use Xampp. Is it possible to install two programs so that each Xampp will have its own htdocs folder and run independently?
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Re: Running Xampp for multiple users

Postby Altrea » 19. March 2021 10:27

Hi,

do the users only need their own htdocs? Then i would configure individual virtual hosts for each user. A virtual host can have it's own DocumentRoot.

It is in most cases not a good idea to have multiple XAMPP installations running, especially not if each user can configure the components on their own. Each XAMPP process needs unique port numbers and configurations to run side by side. And each XAMPP installation needs a huge amount of space (more than 500MB).
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Re: Running Xampp for multiple users

Postby Nobbie » 19. March 2021 11:42

Actually, for that approach there is the mod_userdir Module in Apache, which gives you the opportunity of creating and using webspace per user. See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html
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