What is the use of Mercury and Tomcat in Xampp control panel?

Mercury : Its a package to send emails. Its a local mail server. Tomcat : The Apache Tomcat software is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. Tomcat official website Getting Started with Tomcat XAMPP Control Panel with Modules :

How do I run a file on localhost?

Ok, thanks for the more specific info, ppl may remove their downvotes now… What you are proposing is a very common thing to do! You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet. That’s totally fine and that’s what your Apache is there for. Your Apache is a web … Read more

localhost/xampp/ or http://localhost/index.php can’t be accessed

I am learning server and sql. So I need to install xampp. But unfortunately my localhost/index.php and localhost/xampp not working. I read many questions here stackoverflow but none solved my problem. Here is my httpd-xampp.conf file: This is what I got when I tried to access localhost/xampp/ and localhost/index.php The image is here: Please suggest … Read more

Localhost is not working

If you have defined Virtual Hosts, and thats a very good idea, then you need to define the vhosts name in the HOSTS file. For example, the hosts file: Otherwise windows has no way of knowing where to look for them. Another possibility for localhost not working is a corrupted HOSTS file. Try deleting it … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)