Open Server is a portable distribution of a server platform for Windows. Equipped with integrated tools for web project development, testing and debugging. It has the function of "presenting" and "ranking" web projects in local networks.
Contains the utilities needed to edit web code, create graphic elements and archive files stored on servers. Logs all actions performed on your web project into a log file. Supports PHP, HTTP, SSL and MySQL modules.
Open Server functionality
- Creates web project files based on user specified fragments of web code;
- Integrates the specified PHP, HTTP, SSL and MySQL modules into the project;
- Illuminates the "syntax" and "vocabulary" of the PHP and HTTP code in the interface;
- Changes the attributes of the specified web project files according to user parameters;
- Allows you to create graphical images and integrate them into the specified places of the web project files;
- Analyzes the operation of the web project's systems and logs each "change in its state" in a log file;
- "Ranks" the web project in the local network according to the parameters specified by the user;
- "Presents" the selected web project to other "correspondents" within the specified local networks;
- Archives the specified files to optimize the server.
Platform Features
- All the functional tools required to create web projects "in one package";
- Simplicity of synchronization with PHP, HTTP, SSL and MySQL modules.
- No installation is required;
- Complete logging of all actions performed with the web project;
- Set up rules to automatically start the web project's server directly from the interface;
- Integrated domain name converter;
- Robust security algorithms to prevent access to web-project servers "from the outside";
- Cyrillic URl support;
- Ability to create "subdomains".
Disadvantages
- Recent versions of the platform "cut out" some popular (but "obsolete") Nginx functions;
- Incorrect work of the web editor Brackets (in the distribution there are alternative web editors).
