However, if you just need a simple, static local environment for a single legacy project—downloading XAMPP 7.4.30 is the fastest solution.

Go to the official : https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/

(Cross-Platform, Apache, MariaDB, PHP, Perl) remains the gold standard for local development. But after PHP 7.4 reached its End of Life (EOL) in November 2022, official XAMPP installers stopped bundling it by default.

If you need to deploy a legacy project that requires PHP 7.4 in production: