I’m looking to setup a lightweight, developer only web stack on Windows (and possible OSX). Ideally, I’d be working with Zend framework, MySQL. But I’m open to other APIs to facilitate creating RESTFul (or pseudo-Restful) web services. I’ve seen some tools, like QuickPHP, but it might have been too lightweight as I couldn’t get everything working that I wanted. I’m not opposed to installing Apache and all that, but was just curious if there’s some other tools I’m not seeing to get up to speed quickly.
Keep in mind that this is for local development only.
Thank you.
The thing is, you want your development environment to behave the same way as your production environment, so I would suggest installing whatever you are going to deploy to. I run a LAMP stack on my server, so I run WAMP on Windows for development. It is very easy to install and I don’t notice it slowing down my laptop. You can also look at XAMPP, but after trying both, I prefer WAMP.