XAMPP how to start?

Forum: Apps
Topic: XAMPP how to start?
started by: eboxDamn

Posted by eboxDamn on April 14 2007,21:39

Hi! I´ve installed XAMPP on DSL with "tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.5.4a.tar.gz -C /opt" Everything during install looks good. What must I do now to start?? I´ve read that there must be only input "lampp start". I did, bu nothing happens.
Regards
eboxDamn

Posted by eboxDamn on April 14 2007,21:52

Sorry but I forget one Information:- Starting "/opt/lampp$ lampp start" from ATerminal gets the message "You nedd to start XAMPP as root!". The message above only comes at the first time starting a ATerminal.
Regards

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 14 2007,22:13

Prepend your command with "sudo" for root privileges.

Posted by eboxDamn on April 14 2007,22:45

Hi! Thanks for Your answer. I´ve tried it. Change with "sudo su root" but then I got the message "command not found". Only at the first time after starting ATerminal when I start the command with in this moment looked User "DSL" I got the message "You need to start XAMPP as root". I ´ve no idea. - Maybe I make somethink wrong by changing user? What I noticed is that for the DSL- User when changing the path it looks like "/opt/lampp$". When I changed to root user there I see "/opt/lampp#".
I have to say that I´m a linux-beginner.
Regards
eboxDamn

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 15 2007,01:38

Quote

Prepend your command with "sudo" for root privileges.

Prepend, or prefix it. i.e. sudo <your command>. DSL's sudo is set up to keep the existing environment.

Quote

Change with "sudo su root" but then I got the message "command not found"

sudo should exist in your system though (maybe something is messed up?)

Posted by eboxDamn on April 15 2007,08:54

Hi! Thanks for answering. I´m sorry but I don´t know what to do. What I did now is: - add user root, - su root,- install xampp again,- change to /opt/lampp,- command "lampp start",- result: "bash: lamp: command not found".
Only when starting "ATerminal" new and command-line is "dsl@box:$. I change to "/opt/lamp" and start "lampp start", I got the message "You need to start XAMPP as root". In all other cases I got the message "command not found".
I don´t now what to do/ happens.- The installation guide for Xampp seems easy, but not for me and my system!?!?
I´ve installed my system not for multiuser.
Regards
eboxDamn

Posted by mikshaw on April 15 2007,13:37

Root is already a user; no need to create it.

You should not be logged in as root to install mydsl extensions, and extracting them as a way to install is also not a good idea. Use the mydsl icon or the command "mydsl-load /path/to/app", as user dsl.

You seem to have completely misunderstood (or ignored?) what ^thehatsrule^ said to you, since you seem to have gone in a different direction.

You must learn some of the basics of Linux. It looks like the problem you are having relates mostly with having little concept of permissions and PATH. Hopefully you installed DSL as a frugal system rather than a fully writable harddrive install, or I'd say you've probably already damaged your system.

Posted by eboxDamn on April 18 2007,17:32

Hi! Thanks for answering. I think now I´ve got it. Xampp is running. - Now I have to look about importing my Side who is using odbc-connections at a win-PC with xampp. Which files must be copied into which path on the new system?
Regards
eboxDamn