How to Install Xampp on Ubuntu

What Is XAMPP?

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. (Wikipedia). for more Information about XAMPP you can go to XAMPP Official Page.

How To Install XAMPP / LAMPP on Ubuntu Linux

1. Download XAMPP from the XAMPP Official Download Page

2. Make it Executable, open terminal "Ctrl+ALT+T", and write this command

sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-5.6.8-0-installer.run

3. After finish make it Executable, now you can write this command on Terminal to Install XAMPP

sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-5.6.8-0-installer.run

4. you can follow the instruction from the Program

5. After finish the Installation you can Start XAMPP service with command

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

 and if you success run the service the output should be:

Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.14-4...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.

After you start the XAMPP you run XAMPP service you can access localhost from the browser

6. And you can stop XAMPP service with command

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop