For many days I use Xampp in windows xp professinal. Normally I use it for developing purposes (to work on wordpress and Joomla ). But I miss Xampp when i use Ubuntu 8.10 . So I want to install xampp in my Ubuntu linux. I search it in ubuntu repositories, but I could not find it. So I read the xampp documentation found in apache friends. At last i able to do it.
To do it just I follow the following instruction-
1. First I download Xampp for Linux from the following link-
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xampp/xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz
2. In Ubuntu I open the terminal and obtain the root privilege.Then I run the command- tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz -C /opt
3. That’s all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory. Now you are ready to start the server.
4. To start Xampp, run the command in terminal- /opt/lampp/lampp start
5. To stop Xampp, run the command in terminal- /opt/lampp/lampp stop
isn’t it easy than windows. If you need more help about Xampp visit the following-
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
Nice concept and sharing Khaled. Be more sharing …
Thank you. thats a useful one.
very nice tutorial. and useful one.
but i want to give you a suggestion as your elder brother,
in ubuntu distro already has apache2, php5, mysql packages. and very easy to setup. also linux recommanded that you use your localhost on /var/www/. not on /opt/ . so better try to the default packages of LAMP not XAMPP
use those command to install lamp
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
regards,
saeed
saeed vai, i use Lampp (xampp for linux) version. Because this is a offline installer package, so no active internet connection required at the installation time. But if i use default package of lampp then sometimes internet connection may required at the installation time in case of package dependency. Also I’m a newbie in Linux. However, thanks for your nice comment. keep commenting.