How to install XAMPP for a MU Online server website
Complete guide to installing XAMPP for running a MU Online server's website: what XAMPP includes (Apache, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, phpMyAdmin), the critical difference between XAMPP's MySQL and SQL Server (the game database), how to choose the right PHP version for your web system, the full XAMPP installation and control panel walkthrough, where to put the website files (htdocs folder), how to create and import the MySQL database for the web system via phpMyAdmin, how to install IonCube Loader in XAMPP for PHP-encoded MU web systems, the four most common XAMPP problems and fixes (port 80 conflict, MySQL not starting, wrong PHP version, blank page), and how to use XAMPP on a VPS vs a local development machine.
