Xampp Installation on Linux

Installation:  

1. Open link and download appropriate Xampp version for you.

2. Open your terminal (Press Ctrl + Alt + T) and change directory to the folder when you have downloaded Xampp. Below commands are for specific version, replace with your version number (xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run file name)

3. Reset the permissions of Xampp installer and make it executable. Run the following command. If you are prompted for password enter it.
sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run

4. Run the installer by running the following command.
sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run

5. A GUI window will open. Press enter till finish (or customize it in your own way)

Security Command:

Run the following command to set the password and other security confidentials if you want:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security

Working with Xampp:  

You put all your projects in /opt/lampp/htdocs in your linux to access them via server
1. Install gksu by running following command on your linux ystem:
sudo apt-get install gksu

2.Open htdocs folder with sudo permission(that's best way to edit files in xampp):
gksudo nautilus /opt/lampp/htdocs

3. Starting xampp server:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start #start xampp

4. Now you can go to your browser and enter 127.0.0.1/<project-name>/  to access your project.

5. To stop the server run the following command:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop #stop xampp

Troubleshooting: 

If your command above to start xampp shows message something like this:
Starting XAMPP for Linux 7.0.6-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.
XAMPP:  Another web server is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.
then, first stop your server, run the following command and try again.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop #if apache is not working

I hope this helps with getting away with setting up your Xampp projects on Linux :)
Have a happy working with your Linux :)

Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 1, 2016 at 6:26 AM

    Congratulations megha on this blog that you've started:) and this is really a nice piece.. will try it to get xampp working on my system which I'm not able to do till now😊😊

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    1. Megha AggarwalAugust 1, 2016 at 6:31 AM

      Thanks!!!
      I'm happy to know that it helped you :)

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  2. UnknownAugust 1, 2016 at 6:36 AM

    Hey.. Megha!! this one will be helpful..😃

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