HOWTO: Setup easy web development environment (XAMPP)

[petervk]

jonny:
Thanks. I appreciate the comment.

I did originally intend it for a development environment (that is what I use it for) but I did have to edit the How-to to make my intentions more clear.

foxy123:
Looks like a permissions error to me. Check the permissions on the link you created. It should be readable by everyone, writeable by only the owner, and executeable by everyone. (Excute on a folder is just being able to open it) And check that the php files in the directory are readable by everyone.

If this doesn't work for you, reply again.

[foxy123]

foxy123:
Looks like a permissions error to me. Check the permissions on the link you created. It should be readable by everyone, writeable by only the owner, and executeable by everyone. (Excute on a folder is just being able to open it) And check that the php files in the directory are readable by everyone.

If this doesn't work for you, reply again.

cheers a lot, it helped!

[louieb]

Actually, it takes about four minutes using Ubuntu Dapper.

Not that Xampp is a bad thing, but that statement is wrong.

Please point me to the directions and I'll check that 4 min statment out.

[hypnoticstate]

Nice guide, I'm finding it very useful for testing portals and forums etc etc, but I would really like ftp access, I've used the public_html link to the correct xampp folder and everything works fine when I goto http://localhost/grant however if I start an ftp client and try ftp://localhost/grant I get asked for username and password, which is my default login, I get a directory listing that has my home folder "grant" "webalizer" and "Xampp" I can browse the files in webalizer and xampp but if I click "grant" I get

error 550 /grant : no such file or directory.

Is this because it is just a link ? is there a workaround, I really need local ftp access, because a portal I like relies on having ftp access to the server it resides on, ie my machine.

thx in advance.

[guyweb]

Having installed Xampp to these instructions (worked perfectly, cheers!) I have a query which ive not seen anybody else ask.

I cant write anything to the htdocs directory nor can i change the permissions on the directory using the GUI - it says i am not the owner.

Therefore i cant add any webpages to the directory which is a problem!

I have not tried to create my own web root as per the instructions though. I assumed i might not need to do this and just be able to put stuff in the htdocs folder in lamp. Seems to not be the case.

Some posts here seemt o suggest that it should be possible to put things in the lapm htdocs folder. If this is the case, how do i do it?

Many thanks, Guy.

[az]

Please point me to the directions and I'll check that 4 min statment out.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

1. Install LAMP and phpmyadmin and whatever else (ftp server)
2. Set mysql root password
3. You're done. Apache2, php5 and mysql already talk to each other by default.

[mobal]

Can i online Update XAMPP ?

[petervk]

Pardon?

I don't understand what your asking about. Could you please restate the question with more detail.

[louieb]

There has been a lot of discussion in the thread about using xampp vs installing the Ubuntu lamp packages. So I now I've done both and this has been my experience so far.

Because I am an expert at screwing Ubuntu up I've also become a expert at installing it. Both machines started with a fresh install from the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Live CD. and then software updates were installed.

XAMPP was installed on a PII 400 348MB ram.
Using the instructions posted at the start of this thread XAMPP was downloaded and installed in about 30 minutes. Mysql is running and Phpmyadmin works. and I had my browser displaying one of my web pages about 10 min later.

Ubuntu Lamp was installed on a PIII 433 256MB ram.
Using instructions at https://help.Ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
the lamp package was downloaded an installed in about 30 minutes.

sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
sudo aptitude install of phpmyadmin

MYSQL is running. At this point Apache is running but is not talking to PHP.

The instruction page has a troubleshooting section for PHP. Took 5-10 minutes to follow and run the commands in that section. Restarted Apache and tried again. Apache is still not talking to PHP.

For what I wanted to do which is set up a development web server XAMPP was the easiest. I followed the installation instructions and it worked.

Ubuntu lamp install was the second easiest even after I take the time to go over the Apache - PHP interface to figure out what is wrong. When I say it is the second easiest I mean it is mostly working now after spending only about 35-40 minutes.

It took me most of a day to set up a LAMP development server on Fedora 5.

This is the reason I took up Linux. I was trying to set up a development server using Windows XP, IIS, PHP5 and MYSQL. It was a pain to get the parts to work together. I finally scraped IIS and installed Apache on the windows box and it was able to get that working. At that point I realized I was close to having my own LAMP machine all I needed was Linux. So I went to Fry's and bought a book that had some Linux distributions. It's been interesting.

[amaechler]

Thanks for that great tutorial, that's exactly what I've been looking for! Works out of the box on dapper=D>