What is XAMPP ?
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
This guide will provide you step by step to process to setup XAMPP in your Linux machine and configure it to run a website on localhost environment.
Step 1.) Download appropriate Xampp release (preferably latest).
(Attention: If you download these files on a Windows system and you're running McAfee virus scanner you may get a false positive virus warning. This is a problem with McAfee and gzip-compressed files, it should be ignored.)
Step 2.) After downloading simply type in the following commands:
(For installing any application at linux you need to Root access of the computer. In Ubuntu by default the root account is not enabled.If you are installing it on ubuntu then you need to ebable Root access for it by following command. Open your terminal and type following and invoke sudo passwd root)
- Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root:
osao@osao-laptop:~$ su
- Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:
root@osao-laptop:/home/osao# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.0.tar.gz -C /opt
Warning 1: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work.
Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.
