This document is a Work In Progress tracking about installing XAMPP on ubuntu 9.04 (Gandi MI).
XAMPP : Software Bundle containing a web server (Apache) with MySQL, PHP and Perl; provided by Apache Friends. You can use other (non basic components), like Mercury Mailserver, and Apache Tomcat.
Operation Mode: command line via SSH.
User: i use the super-user “su” to gave commands. to go type: su
Editor: i use nano. to install type: sudo apt-get install nano
There atre 3 steps: Download the archive (the url change as version)
# wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz
Deflate archive. it will create a folder named lampp
# tar xvzf xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz
Move the lampp folder to /opt/lampp
# mv lampp /opt
To run XAMPP you need to give the following command:
/opt/lampp/lampp start
Now you can see XAMPP working at default address http:<host-address>