Xampp Web server

Step 1: Download Simply click on one of the links below. It's a good idea to get the latest version. :) A complete list of downloads (older versions) is available at SourceForge. A detailed overview over the changes and contents of all XAMPP releases is available in the RELEASE NOTES.

XAMPP for Linux 1.7.3a, 2010/1/10 XAMPP Linux 1.7.3a

Attention: If you download these files on a Windows system and you're running McAfee virus scanner you may get a false positive virus warning. This is a problem with McAfee and gzip-compressed files, it should be ignored. Step 2: Installation After downloading simply type in the following commands: Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root: su Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt: tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt Warning: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work. Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command. That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory. Step 3: Start To start XAMPP simply call this command: /opt/lampp/lampp start You should now see something like this on your screen: Starting XAMPP 1.7.3a... LAMPP: Starting Apache... LAMPP: Starting MySQL... LAMPP started. Ready. Apache and MySQL are running. If you get any error messages please take a look at the Linux FAQ. Step 4: Test OK, that was easy but how can you check that everything really works? Just type in the following URL at your favourite web browser: http://localhost Now you should see the start page of XAMPP containing some links to check the status of the installed software and some small programming examples. The Instant Art example: A small PHP/GD program (since 0.9.6pre1 also a flashy PHP/Ming example, see screenshot). Thanks to Anke Arnold for her font »AnkeCalligraph«. A matter of security (A MUST READ!) As mentioned before, XAMPP is not meant for production use but only for developers in a development environment. The way XAMPP is configured is to be open as possible and allowing the developer anything he/she wants. For development environments this is great but in a production environment it could be fatal. Here a list of missing security in XAMPP: The MySQL administrator (root) has no password. The MySQL daemon is accessible via network. ProFTPD uses the password "lampp" for user "nobody". PhpMyAdmin is accessible via network. Examples are accessible via network. MySQL and Apache running under the same user (nobody). To fix most of the security weaknesses simply call the following command: /opt/lampp/lampp security It starts a small security check and makes your XAMPP installation quite secure. For example this protects the XAMPP demo pages by a username ('lampp') and password combination. START AND STOP PARAMETERS Parameter Description start Starts XAMPP. stop Stops XAMPP. restart Stops and starts XAMPP. startapache Starts only the Apache. startssl Starts the Apache SSL support. This command activates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future SSL will stay activated. startmysql Starts only the MySQL database. startftp Starts the ProFTPD server. Via FTP you can upload files for your web server (user "nobody", password "lampp"). This command activates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future FTP will stay activated. stopapache Stops the Apache. stopssl Stops the Apache SSL support. This command deactivates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future SSL will stay deactivated. stopmysql Stops the MySQL database. stopftp Stops the ProFTPD server. This command deactivates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future FTP will stay deactivated. security Starts a small security check programm. Stopping XAMPP To stop XAMPP simply call this command: /opt/lampp/lampp stop You should now see: Stopping LAMPP 1.7.3a... LAMPP: Stopping Apache... LAMPP: Stopping MySQL... LAMPP stopped. And XAMPP for Linux is stopped. Uninstall To uninstall XAMPP just type in this command: rm -rf /opt/lampp Chú ý: Để tạo site dạng http://localhost/Joomla cần thêm đoạn code sau vào file xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf Alias /Joomla/ "/www/Joomla/" Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from ഓള്‍ Trong đó /www/Joomla/ là đường dẫn tới thư mục Joomla của bạn 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. First, find out your default runlevel. Simply type egrep :initdefault: /etc/inittab. You should now see a line containing a number between two colons. In most cases 3 or 5 (2 if you're using Debian). 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: cd /etc/rc.d/rc2.d If your system didn't provide /etc/rc.d/rc3.d please try also /etc/init.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc3.d. Now carry out the actual configuration by typing: sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp S99lampp sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp K01lampp Now XAMPP should start and stop automatically if you boot or shutdown your machine.