endless problems... xampp and ubuntu

[tech7]

Okay, all together I've spend days working on trying to get things to work out.. I've even reinstalled ubuntu..
the newest issues i'm having is;
when I power up xampp on ubuntu, I get this in my terminal
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 243: echo: write error: Broken pipe
and mysql won't work

then other problem has been going on for a while. It is when I try to go into xampp from browser it will not go past http://localhost/xampp/splash.php, essentially it will not move past the index page..

Should I just give up??? What do you guys use to simulate webserver for development?? I need php, phpmyadmin, and mysql; that's it.. i've been having to use my windows partition when I do development and I don't think that is supposed to be the way it is...

any help, please???

[silverglade00]

sudo tasksel

Then choose lamp server. Your web files need to go into /var/www/

After that,

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

[tech7]

hey, thanks a mil, buddy.. I think you may have just got me fixed up...

[gnicko]

What do you guys use to simulate webserver for development??

We don't simulate anything...you happen to be in possession of the finest webserver in existence!

Do the real deal!

[tech7]

We don't simulate anything...you happen to be in possession of the finest webserver in existence!

Do the real deal!

what do you mean???

[tech7]

Hey silverglade,
I've placed my files into the htdocs folder but they aren't showing up in web-browser, I just get 404'd.. Do you know what the deal is with this???

[tech7]

now when I startup lampp i get this in my terminal
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 125: echo: write error: Broken pipe
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 194: echo: write error: Broken pipe
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 243: echo: write error: Broken pipe
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 326: echo: write error: Broken pipe
/opt/lampp/lampp: line 137: echo: write error: Broken pipe


and my control panel shows that neither mysql or apache is running..
i'm lost..

[silverglade00]

Sorry I have been very busy. What I had you do is install the Ubuntu version of the software instead of the LAMPP version. Your web site needs to go into /var/www/ instead of htdocs. You won't be using lampp anymore. You can check if things are running (they are by default when you run the tasksel command) by:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 status
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld status

You can see the files you put into /var/www/ here: http://localhost/