Shareef 301: How to Setup Xampp for Linux

Install XAMPP

Two easy steps:

Download the most recent version of XAMPP: (at time of writing 1.7.4)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x…ar.gz?download
(Source URL:http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374)
Extract the archive to /opt using sudo: (make sure you are in the directory that you downloaded the archive to)
Code:
```
sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.5.3a.tar.gz -C /opt
```

Start XAMPP
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Stop XAMPP
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop

Additional XAMPP commands
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp

Close existing connections

To stop the already running apache server:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

stops already running mysql (to work with the lampp mysql)
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

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