You can Start, Stop, and Restart the servers from the Manage Servers tab. When launching XAMPP manually, you’ll need to start the components first. On the last page, choose whether to launch XAMPP or not and press Finish. This will complete the setup with the defaults (both core and developer files will be included and they’ll be installed to /opt/lampp/). In the Setup Wizard, we recommend that you simply press Forward on each page. Now that the installer is executable, launch it by entering the file name like so sudo. We’ll use chmod to set the permissions for this file. Open the terminal and navigate to the directory where the. You can also download an older version from the XAMPP SourceForge page if that’s necessary. Once you decide on the correct version for your needs, simply click on Download. You can press the What’s Included button to check the exact package versions.
The Apache Friends Downloads page provides multiple XAMPP versions, which in turn contain different versions of subcomponents such as PHP and Apache.
We’ll cover the steps to set up and run XAMPP on Ubuntu in this article. But it’s still useful on occasion as it’s very simple to set up and deploy.
It stands forĪs LAMP/LEMP stacks are the norm on Linux, XAMPP is not that popular. XAMPP is a web server solution stack mainly used as a local test environment for web apps and websites.
