You do NOT have to install it, configure it, or in fact make any change at all to the downloaded files in order to have a fully functioning test server up and running! One of the goals of Uniform is to create a standalone server that does not alter or affect the local machine in any way at all. Once you’ve downloaded the package, all you need to do is extract them to a folder and double-click the “start server” batch file; a full-fledged Apache 2 server with the latest version of PHP, MySQL and Perl already installed and pre-configured will then start up. When you’re done with your testing, simply double-click the “stop server” batch file and the entire server shuts down, packs itself up and disappears from existence again leaving no remnants in memory or registry files!

There is not one word of exaggeration in that description. Download it, extract it, click the server_start.bat file in the “Uniform Server” folder to crank it up … and from your local Windows desktop you have a fully functioning and customizable web server test bed with all the files automatically placed in the default locations you would expect in a typical Linux server. Click the stop.bat and it all unloads from memory. And this wonderfully self-contained web server test bed is fully portable to a flash drive, whatever. Take your test bed with you, people. Sweet, to the max.

Uniform Server is a total freebie you can download from SourceForge. It works.

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