Installation of LAMPP - muhammed-ajmal/Install-Config GitHub Wiki

Note : LAMPP is the Linux specific version of XAMPP.

Download LAMPP-Server using this command

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Goto https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html and download the version of LAMPP software that you want for Linux (Ubuntu).

Open your Terminal and locate the file (by default it downloads into the Downloads folder)

cd Downloads

Execute this command

sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-7.1.7-0-installer.run

Note : The version of XAMPP you'll download might be different, so change the version in this command accordingly.

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You'll be asked for your system's password

Now go into SuperUser mode

sudo su

Run the installer, but don't close the Terminal.

./xampp-linux-x64-7.1.7-0-installer.run

Note: Again change the version for executing this command.

A dialog box will open, if you get an error, ignore it. In the dialog box, click next(for each step) and move through the process of installation. Once XAMPP is installed, click finish.

Go back to your Terminal and change the directory

cd /opt/lampp

To set a password, type

./lampp security

Press y(Enter) and enter a new password and re-enter this password again to confirm

Start XAMPP

./xampp start

Type exit(Enter) to exit the SuperUser

To start LAMPP, execute this command

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

To stop LAMPP, execute this command

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop