With XAMPP this process is frustrating and can result in sites just not working without significant changes to file paths, configuration files, etc.

Worse, you will eventually want to upload your site to a real server, at which point you'll need to do a lot of work ensuring that PHP versions are the same, configuration and PHP extensions are the same, database users are set up, etc. It's actually a lot more difficult once you want to do something outside the very narrow scope of default configuration that XAMPP supplies. People claim it's 'easier' but it's only 'easier' insofar as it's what you are used to. Unfortunately many books and tutorials inexplicably still teach XAMPP as the development environment of choice. It was the first thing they were introduced to and they never learned any better or bothered to look into better/alternative solutions.

People using XAMPP today are the same kind of people who were still using Internet Explorer 6 well into the 2000s. The answer to the question is invariably no.

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