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-1.8.1.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.
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 1.8.1...
LAMPP: Starting Apache...
LAMPP: Starting MySQL...
LAMPP started.
LAMPP: Starting Apache...
LAMPP: Starting MySQL...
LAMPP started.
Ready. Apache and MySQL are running.
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