If you’ve read my post on adding aliases to WampServer, you may be curious about how to add aliases to XAMPP. While WampServer has a nice (if somewhat buggy) tool for adding Apache aliases, XAMPP does not. Fortunately, it’s pretty straightforward to do by hand.
I use Wamp Server together with NetBeans to develop PHP applications on my local machine. This works well because I can do debugging (thanks to xdebug) and can readily view and edit files. I usually don’t like to place projects in the c:\wamp\www folder, preferring instead to place them in more logical places in my personal directory.