# Mautic and XAMMP

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-and-xammp/8329>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-and-xammp/8329 "2017-04-25T00:31:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tyler](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Tyler)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-and-xammp/8329/1 "2017-04-25T00:31:30Z")

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Can someone tell me why I would run Mautic locally? I am messing about with Wordpress and XAMPP and a few themes and plugins etc. and really enjoying myself. Learning a lot and understanding more and more about the system and how they all play together. However I am wondering if I will see the same benefits with a local install of Mautic given that it kind of (if I’m thinking about mautic correctly) needs the net and external site visitors to really test its functionality? OR is there a way that I am currently unaware of to simulate ‘site visitors’ etc so that I can see how mautic responds to various situations on my local install. As in I put the tracking cookie and logs a new visit then I have that new visitor interact with a contact form and mautic logs that info THEN I come back (somehow) and have mautic log that as a separate visitor and log it differently.

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**Author:** ![Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tyler](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Tyler)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-and-xammp/8329/2 "2017-04-25T00:31:30Z")

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Can someone tell me why I would run Mautic locally? I am messing about with Wordpress and XAMPP and a few themes and plugins etc. and really enjoying myself. Learning a lot and understanding more and more about the system and how they all play together. However I am wondering if I will see the same benefits with a local install of Mautic given that it kind of (if I’m thinking about mautic correctly) needs the net and external site visitors to really test its functionality? OR is there a way that I am currently unaware of to simulate ‘site visitors’ etc so that I can see how mautic responds to various situations on my local install. As in I put the tracking cookie and logs a new visit then I have that new visitor interact with a contact form and mautic logs that info THEN I come back (somehow) and have mautic log that as a separate visitor and log it differently.