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Posted by Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points

LAMPP

I have tried installing XAMPP/LAMPP on my Ubuntu machine, but index.php says: "Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation :-("

PHPmyadmin and Apache2 are present, as is MySql (pretty sure.) Anyone have experience with this install? I'm running Ubuntu 15.04. Thanks!

4 Answers

graemehunt
graemehunt
6,577 Points
graemehunt
graemehunt
6,577 Points

Hi Hobie, I've recently installed LAMPP on a Linux Mint system and have previously installed it (Xampp) on Ubuntu and windows. First things first did you install it to root? and have you started it up via Terminal?

Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points
Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points

I did install it as root using Terminal. I have not tried starting it via Terminal. I didn't see any directions for that online... Will it boot to a GUI?

Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points

I guess I didn't understand how to even use the thing. I assumed that going to localhost/ would bring up a file - then the index.php file I find in htdocs says that there was something wrong with the install... ??

graemehunt
graemehunt
6,577 Points
graemehunt
graemehunt
6,577 Points

Try $ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start in Terminal to start the server (or wherever your lampp install sits in the directory structure! Hope this helps : - )

Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points
Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points

Thanks a bunch.

Turns out I'd done that - sometimes I need to stop Apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 stop ) but then when I "start" LAMP, nothing happens... What am I looking for/missing?

Hobie Anthony
Hobie Anthony
3,121 Points

Should I see something when I go to localhost/ ? Also, I can't do anything with the index.php file in htdocs - I've tried to edit it and even replace it, but I don't have permissions...

It all looked so easy in the video... ;)