HOWTO: Setup easy web development environment (XAMPP)

[Raval]

I got the following errors:

Warning: file_get_contents(lang.tmp) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/index.php on line 2

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/index.php:2) in /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/index.php on line 4

any help?

Anyone, please?

[ziadoz]

I followed the tutorial exactly, and it all works well



But as soon as I put files in the public_html dir, I get 403 Forbidden at http://localhost/[username]
I expect this is simple to amend, but I don't know how... cheers

Make sure you have read access to the files. I had exactly the same problem when I copied over all my Windows XP development files. Seemed to sort it out.

[vnt87]

Hi
I just installed XAMPP for my Edgy box using the intrusction above. But somehow when I try to start LAMPP, only Apache and ProFTPD seem to be able to start, MySQL just refuses to work (I looked at the XAMPP Control Panel and the button next to MySQL always read 'Execute' no matter how many time I click it)
Moreover, when I navigate to localhost, I got a 403 error.
Does anybody have an idea of what went wrong here?

[unabatedshagie]

This might be a silly question but I have just installed xampp but how do I get it to start every time I log in?

I can't just add /opt/lampp/lampp start to the startup programs because I need to have sudo infront of it to start it in a terminal.

[gmconie]

Excellent howto.

I had problems with setting up the control panel. Fixed these by:

• manually creating the .local/share/applications directories.
• And then using the config file posted by erkki70.

Thanks

[cius]

Wonderful HOWTO! I've just started my personal web site and have experimented with setting my own in-house test server on an old computer. I was having trouble when I ran across this HOWTO. Now I have a personal server on my main machine. After going through the "lampp security" and setting up proper passwords for everything, I may now start the heavy lifting on my site design. Thank you again!

[unabatedshagie]

I found the following on the apache friends website. Forgive the stupid question but could someone tell me how to do this with feisty?

After I rebooted my Linux box XAMPP stopped running! How can I fix this?
Correct. That's normal Linux behaviour (which applies to any other Unix-like system. It's the admin's job to make sure a particular application is started at bootup.

There is no real standard way to configure the boot process of a Linux system, but most of them should allow you to start XAMPP at boot time using the following steps.

   1. First, find out your default runlevel.
      Simply type egrep :initdefault: /etc/inittab.
      You should no see a line containing a number between two colons.
      In most cases 3 or 5 (2 if you're using Debian).

   2. Go into the directory which configures this runlevel. If for example your runlevel is 3, then you have to change into the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory.

      If your system didn't provide /etc/rc.d/rc3.d please try also /etc/init.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc3.d.
   3. Now carry out the actual configuration by typing:

      ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp S99lampp
      ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp K01lampp

Now XAMPP should start and stop automatically if you boot or shutdown your machine.

[goodtimetribe]

So far this post has just under 200 views, So great. If you read this and use it could you leave a reply saying if it was useful/useless? I'd like to keep improving this how-to, so feedback would be good.

Plus, replies bump it up the list.

Haven't used it yet, but it's my plan to after the semester's over.

[XTREEM|RAGE]

Nice almost everything worked
except this...

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Start/Stop XAMPP
Name=XAMPP Control Panel
Exec=gksudo "python /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel.py"
Icon[en_CA]=/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/devices/network-wired.svg
Encoding=UTF-8
Terminal=false
Name[en_CA]=XAMPP Control Panel
Comment[en_CA]=Start/Stop XAMPP
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/devices/network-wired.svg

That didnt work for me ;x

[XTREEM|RAGE]

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i saw that 2, but didnt work .
Does any1 know how we can install this as a server in feisty? So it automatically start when i boot to ubuntu?