Alternatives and competitors
Sites like apachefriends.org
The 20 closest local web development stack alternatives to apachefriends.org, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to apachefriends.org? The closest matches are phpMyAdmin, getcomposer.org and Drupal. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About apachefriends.org
apachefriends.org
XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP and Perl.
Wikidata: free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package
Summary by Claude
Apache Friends distributes XAMPP, a free open-source package that bundles Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB, PHP and Perl for installing a local web server and PHP development environment on Windows, Linux and macOS.
- Who it’s for
- PHP and web developers, students
- Business model
- Non-profit, free open source
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to apachefriends.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to apachefriends.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to apachefriends.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Very close cos 0.897 - 02
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close cos 0.891 - 03
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.887 - 04
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close cos 0.882 - 05
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
Close cos 0.882 - 06
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Close cos 0.880 - 07
open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Close cos 0.879 - 08
ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall
Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.
Close cos 0.875 - 09
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Close cos 0.874 - 10
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.876 - 11
Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Close cos 0.874 - 12
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Close cos 0.874 - 13
OpenLDAP, Main Page
The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.
Close cos 0.871 - 14
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.871 - 15
Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
Close cos 0.871 - 16 Close cos 0.868
- 17
software and tech-news website based in Romania
Close cos 0.870 - 18
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Close cos 0.869 - 19
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Close cos 0.867 - 20
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.867
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to apachefriends.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones apachefriends.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What apachefriends.org is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/3.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- CDN
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS demi.ns.cloudflare.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what apachefriends.org adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on apachefriends.org 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on apachefriends.org 6/20
- nginx · not on apachefriends.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on apachefriends.org 6/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Fastly 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on apachefriends.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on apachefriends.org 3/20
- jQuery 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on apachefriends.org 3/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on apachefriends.org 2/20
- Amazon SES · not on apachefriends.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on apachefriends.org 2/20
- PHP · not on apachefriends.org 2/20