Neard - portable WAMP stack

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Github: https://github.com/crazy-max/neard
(formerly hosted @ Sourceforge)

Neard is a portable WAMP software stack involving useful binaries, tools and applications for your web development.

Binaries

• Apache, the world's most used web server software.
• Filezilla, a FTP server application.
• MailHog, a Web and API based SMTP testing.
• MariaDB, a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system.
• MySQL, an open-source relational database management system.
• Node.js, an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications.
• PHP, a server-side scripting language designed for web development including PEAR and extra extensions.

Applications

• Adminer, (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP.
• GitList, an elegant and modern git repository viewer.
• phpMyAdmin, to handle the administration of MySQL and MariaDB over the Web.
• Webgrind, the Xdebug Profiling Web Frontend in PHP.
• WebSVN, an Online subversion repository browser.

Tools

• Composer, Dependency Manager for PHP.
• Console, a multi command prompt with TCC/LE and ANSICON.
• Drush, a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal.
• Git, a widely used version control system for software development.
• HostsEditor, a small application for editing windows Hosts file.
• ImageMagick, a free and open-source software suite to manipulate image files.
• Notepad2-mod, a fork of Notepad2 text editor with syntax highlighting.
• PhpMetrics, gives metrics about PHP project and classes.
• PHPUnit, a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP.
• SVN, a software versioning and revision control system.
• WP-CLI, a command line interface for WordPress.
• XDebugClient, a simple frontend for XDebug.

And many other features.

Requires admin rights. That page has some more requirements, particularly for WinXP.

Beware that it weighs in at 906Mb uncompressed. Untested!

[webfork]

I have more to say about this but for now a few quick notes:

License: GPLv3

* Most importantly, Filezilla Server to this point hasn't been portable, so if they just made that happen, I already have a very specific reason to download. I'm a big fan of that program.

* In terms of size, I'm pretty sure that makes it the biggest program on the site. Still, storage is cheap.

* I know I've heard people complain that an inteface isn't very good or it's cluttered, or whatever but I don't recall the last time someone said "boy I wish this had fewer features". At least on this point, the program is a monster. I just want to download it and maybe someday I'll dig through and figure out what I need. It happened with LibreOffice and that program changed my life.

[webfork]

I thought for years that any minute now some web server system and use a simple web browser to offer a ton of wonderful portable tools and features. Once a few excellent local apps came about, desktop users simply wouldn't be able to ignore the progress anymore and it would become like jPortable: a big download but worth the time.

This may still happen but our site so far hasn't been terribly excited about various Apache stacks just because they seem to have a pretty high barrier to entry. (Don't know what an .htaccess file is? Neither did I.) Also, I'm not sure how actively these programs are updated and managed, which is a big deal if you're using this as a legit server and not just a local software tool.