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.

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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

Top 10K · #2,715 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit apachefriends.org

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

LaravelPHPAMPModSecurityphpBBApache Software FoundationMariaDBDrupalgetcomposer.orgphpMyAdmin

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to apachefriends.org

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to apachefriends.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  2. 02
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

  3. 03
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  4. 04
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

  5. 05
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  6. 06
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

  7. 07
    ModSecurity modsecurity.org Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    AMP ampproject.org Top 1K English

    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.

  9. 09
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  10. 10
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    CPAN cpan.org Top 10K English

    The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org

    Perl package repository

  12. 12
    centos.org Top 10K English

    The CentOS Project

    Linux distribution

  13. 13
    Modrinth modrinth.com Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    Softpedia softpedia.com Top 10K English

    software and tech-news website based in Romania

  15. 15
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  16. 16
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

  17. 17
    Cygwin cygwin.com Top 10K English

    Cygwin

    Unix subsystem for Windows machines

  18. 18
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

  19. 19
    fwupd fwupd.org Top 10K English

    LVFS: Home

    firmware update management software for Linux

  20. 20
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

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
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/3.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
  • Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 1933958b3712dffd6d12d37987e7be7aefc21b92
Hosting
Video
DNS hosting

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