Showing posts with label xampp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xampp. Show all posts

Jun 11, 2012

Play With Xampp on linux 32 bit and 64 bit OS


In Previous blog , I just taught you how to install Xampp on 32  bit and 64 bit distro , in this tutorial I am going to  tell you how to make web development easy on Linux. When you work on Linux environment everything is not easy as it is stable and secure , you have to come up with lots of issues and how to solve it.

 

 Xampp on linux 32 bit and 64 bit OS


Problem no.1
How to give write permission to /htdocs  to create folder and files?

This is one of biggest issue after installing xampp as we have to create .php files under /htdocs folder


solution : Its not a  rocket science to give write permission to a folder .

open terminal

Note if you use KDE then use su command else use sudo.

after opening terminal write


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sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs
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Problem no.2

Which editor will be best?

solution: If you want dreamweaver like editor then
kompozer will come closer ,if you want fast and stable editor there is numeros my personal favorite are

  1. kate
  2. geany
  3. gedit (you have to twaeked it)
  4. bluefish
  5. kompozer

Problem no. 3

Which browser will be better?

solution : I prefer Firefox over any browser and don't know why. You can work with any browser of your choice . My top 5 browser are


  1. firefox
  2. chrome
  3. opera
  4. safari
  5. konqueror
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May 6, 2012

Install XAMPP on 64 bit Linux Distro

Today Linux has become number one choice in Open Source world whether it is Desktop experience, programming, server or Web Development Linux has no match. Its Secure , fast and comes in many flavor.
xampp 64 bit linux
In this tutorial we will focus how to install Xampp on linux 64 bit OS. Earlier day the Linux version of XAMPP called as LAMPP. But it comes as XAMPP with more improvements.
For Installing and running XAMPP on 64 bit linux distro install wine  through package manager , it will install 32 bit packages so you can run  32 bit application also. Please note that  XAMPP is till now a 32 bit application.
After installing Wine Download XAMPP  latest version from
After downloding Xampp copy it to home folder, and rename it to xampp.tar.gz

Note : Some distro allows root login such as PCLinuxOS, OpenSUSE so if your distro allows root login then logged as root. Some distro doesnot allow root login like Ubuntu, Kubuntu ... don't worry login as default.

Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root
su tar xvfz xampp.tar.gz -C /opt
or if fail try
sudo tar xvfz xampp.tar.gz -C /opt
it will ask password , use your root password and hit enter.
To start XAMPP simply call this command:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
or
su  /opt/lampp/lampp start
You should now see something like this on your screen:
Starting XAMPP 1.7.7...
LAMPP: Starting Apache...

Read complete tutorial at Cellguru
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