XAMPP program question

$Linuxnoob · 03-31-2006, 02:26 PM

is there a way to make this program launch my apache, php5, mysql 5 upon startup of my comp?

$Linuxnoob · 04-03-2006, 02:20 AM

Anyone know?

reddazz · 04-03-2006, 07:09 AM

I have never used XAMPP so can't be of much help. Maybe you should have just used the Fedora Core ampp packages since they automatically install all the required startup scripts.

$Linuxnoob · 04-03-2006, 11:07 AM

Hmm What program would I run to start those and how do I delete all XAMPP files? Can I just got to that particular directory and delete everything, or would the files most likely be all around my local drive? if so I know there is a grep command that allows you to sort all associated files, but I can't recall what it is.. Any help you can provide is much appreciated!

reddazz · 04-04-2006, 02:24 AM

You can install the Fedora Core server stuff using YUM (or yumex if you prefer a gui). The start up scripts are automatically installed and to start a service at boot time, just enable this by running "system-config-services" or by clicking on "services" somewhere in the menu. Xampp seems to install things in /opt, so its safe to uninstall it (or keep it if you want since it does not interfere with the FC packages).

$Linuxnoob · 04-04-2006, 02:35 AM

Ah, but if I keep it, and I do set up my apache, php5, mysql and all that off of FC wouldn't the localhost of XAMPP conflict with the localhost of my newly installed apache?

dreamcarrior · 04-04-2006, 03:03 AM

As long as you don't turn on both services at the same time, there should not be any conflict. I tried to make XAMPP work in FC5, but for some reason, XAMPP just did not want to initiate even all the services provided by FC5 were turned off. I think it is the environment setup that XAMPP could not find its necessary libraries by itself. However, after I study more about FC5 server services, I decided to migrate to the built-in servers, and they work great! The data backup and restore work great as well.

$Linuxnoob · 04-04-2006, 12:05 PM

Cool, I think I'm going to try both and see which suites me better, I find XAMPP better initially because I have much to learn. Hopefully as my understanding becomes expansive I'll realize the built in server is simply more and better.