LinuxNOV published a XAMPP tutorial
XAMPP is free and open-source web development bundle, it includes Apache HTTP web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python. OpenSSL, and many more web modules. XAMPP software bundle “distribution” easily provides all these web modules with a few commands. So, don’t bother installing Apache, MySQL, PHP …etc one by one. Please, follow the installation instructions down below.Setup XAMPP Web Development Server On CentOS 6.4 - Fedora 18 - Ubuntu 13.04