A local server is one of the webmaster's tools offered by many developers for free download, configuration and installation on a computer. It is highly regarded by web developers due to the wide possibilities this program offers.
Local server - specialized software that is installed on a local computer and allows you to develop sites without access to the Internet. The term local computer refers to any user's home computer. The server consists of several software modules designed to perform various functions. The work of the local server completely imitates the work of the real server located in the hosting company. The functionality is no different from the hosting capabilities and consists of similar components, namely the MySQL database, server, PHP support and scripts for working with databases.
All components of the local service are downloaded and installed in an assembly, which eliminates the need to configure it. After installation, the user only needs to install the project engine and start working with it in the same way as on physical hosting.
A developer creating a dynamic website using PHP, Perl, MySQL databases and any ready-made scripts simply needs a local server to test and debug the finished product. The fact is that dynamic sites and web pages of sites, before being sent to the browser, are processed by the server, which translates them into ordinary HTML code. If a dynamic site is created using PHP, it is assembled from separate files, of which there can be a lot. On a local server, you can reproduce this process and test and debug the result, as well as see how it will be reflected in different browsers.
In addition, if the web pages of the future site use SSI commands to assemble HTML pages from separate files, then the local server makes it possible to view the final code of these pages. Without using a local server, they simply won't work. As a result, only fragments of the site will be visible without any constituent elements.
Separately, it should be said about the utilities built into the local server that encode and optimize scripts encrypted by Zend Guard. Without such utilities, many of the scripts you use will be inoperable, since almost all developers protect scripts from theft and any interference.
