The “XAMPP” stack is an acronym where X stands for an operating system, A stands for Apache web server, M stands for MySQL or MariaDB database server and PP stands for PHP and Perl. In this post, we will be discussing on How to install xampp stack on ubuntu 18.04 LTS. If this shows your PHP version, everything is working fine.Home » How To » How to Install XAMPP Stack on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now open your web browser and type localhost/site.Type the following command to create the PHP version file.Įcho '' > /home/user-name/Desktop/site/index.php.Now restart the system and login as the standard user.Sudo ln -s /home/user_name/Desktop/site/ /opt/lampp/htdocs/siteĬhange the user_name to the standard username. Now we want to make a link from the htdocs folder to the newly created folder site.After making the folder, login back as the admin user.For this, you have to login into that user. Now make a new folder with some arbitrary name in the Desktop folder of the standard user.Run this command to install the init script to all run level.Change the location to your XAMPP folder accordingly (if not in /opt/lampp). Paste these commands in the newly opened gedit window.

Open gedit and create a file as given using the terminal.

Usually, in Linux, XAMPP will be installed inside the folder /opt/lampp. Once you do this solution as a privileged user, XAMPP starts automatically while booting into your system (even if you are using unprivileged standard user).

In many cases like computer labs where students should not be provided with the admin privilege have to use XAMPP server for their academic needs. We should manually enter the command to start the XAMPP as SUDO user.īut in the case of a standard user in Ubuntu, he cannot use the sudo command as he doesn’t have the admin privilege. In Ubuntu, XAMPP will not auto start on boot or reboot in usual Installation.

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