And it'll show you the links to all the good stuff that it has.Īnd that's all. Now you'll see the index page of Xampp in your browser. To check if everything went okay launch the browser (Firefox, Chrome etc), and type in the follwoing URL: To start Xampp run the follwoing command in terminal: If you've done everything correct, the Xampp is now installed in your computer. The code highlighted in green is the file's name, and rest is the code for extracting it. You can check it out from the file's name. You'll have to change that if you've downloaded a newer version. By the time I installed it (that is yesterday Friday 3rd August, 2012), the latest version was 1.8.0. Remember that the part of command highlighted in yellow is the version of the Xampp. Then extract the archived file to /opt with following command: You can enter that directory by cd command. But if you've changed the default setting or moved the downloaded file to some other directory(as I did) then you'll have to go to that directory. Go to the directory where you've downloaded the Xampp. It'll then show you your username, which means you've successfully loged in as administrator. Launch the terminal and login as System Administrator root by typing in following command in it. So lets go ahead and see the steps for Installing Xampp.įirst of all you have to download Xampp. In LAMP we had to install every individual software seperately. As we just have to install one software package, and entire LAMP will be installed. Installing Xampp is much more easier than installing LAMP.

So this time I tried it too, and found that it's a really good software package. In my previous tutorial which was about installing LAMP on Linuxmint many people commented that they liked the tutorial but they use Xampp. Xampp is a software package that includes Apache HTTP server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl languages.

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