You should get the main menu application loaded which will look something like this. First open the Ubuntu 12.04 Unity Dash and start the Main Menu application. For this step you will need to have the Main Menu application installed which can be done using the Ubuntu Software Centre. To make XAMPP more convenient to use you might want to add it the Ubuntu Dash. sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop Step 7 Add XAMPP to the Unity Dash sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security Step 6 Stop Lampp To make the lampp installation more secure run the lampp security wizard to set passwords and follow the on screen prompts. OK, now to check that everything really works? Just type in the following URL in web browser: You will now see a screen like this asking you select your language.Ĭlick the language you want and you should now see the start page of XAMPP containing some links to check the status of the installed software and some small programming examples. You should now see something like this on your screen: Starting XAMPP 1.7.7. To start XAMPP simply call this command: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start Now XAMPP is now installed in the /opt/lampp directory. \DownloadsĮxtract the downloaded archive file to /opt with root access: sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz -C /optĪny versions of XAMPP already installed in the opt folder will get overwritten by this command. Go to a Linux shell (Ctrl-Alt_T), Change directory to the folder that XAMP was downloaded to.
The next few steps 2 – 4 are the same as on the Apache friends website. Step 1: Get XAMPPĭownload XAMPP for Linux from Apache Friends. These instructions are a combination and addition to those found on the Apache Friends (XAMPP) website and Upubuntu websites. For a tutorial on setting up a full time web development machine please see my settting up Apache 2 server on Ubuntu tutorial.
XAMPP also gives you an easy way to only start the web server when required.įor production web servers and full time development machines it is better to use the Apache server from the Ubuntu repository. XAMPP gives you everything to run a test web server in a single portable package theoretically making it easy to copy the configuration between machines. First let me answer the question why install XAMPP rather than installing Apache, MYSQL and PHP from the Ubuntu repository. This tutorial has been written to help you install XAMPP on 32bit Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04 Linux. Installing XAMPP on Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04
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