Im having a strange problem with auto starting xampp. As one post suggested to add

to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Its auto starting pretty well. But im facing another problem by this approach.

When I try to use any php http wrapper functions like:
I get error as follows If I restart the server
that fixes the issue. So, I have to do this every time as I reboot the system.

Any idea how i can fix this problem ?

Anyone can help plz?

Why are you running XAMPP rather than a normal, everyday LAMP stack? Since you are running Linux, you can just install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl and have the same thing, without the hacks involved with trying to get XAMPP to work like LAMP.

Here is information on doing that:
http://straightedgelinux.com/blog/howto/lamp.html
or in audio form:
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1601


As for your specific question, it sounds as if maybe XAMPP is getting started before your computer has all of its networking sorted out. I do not know why that would be; I do not know how XAMPP configures itself. Maybe you could either set XAMPP to either start only after resolv.conf is fully populated (that's sort of my working theory as to why XAMPP would not be able to find an external host) or only after you have a DHCP lease, or something like that.

I am assuming that you can ping external hosts, even though XAMPP cannot?

You haven't mentioned your distribution.
Put the restart command in start up application.
or
It start and restart after login automatically. You do not need to do it manually.

Thanks for the reply guys !!

well,the chained restart may work but I guess its not the right solution to it.
yes i understand that the xampp server is started a bit ahead that the dhcp lease. Looking at rc.d directories the network activity is starting at runlevel 2.

So a genric question would be how can i start any program at runlevel 2 or 3 as a root automatically ?
Also how can we archive a delayed start like run after 5 sec ?
My distribution is mandriva Hydrogen. yes, its a old but my hardware is not brand new either.It working good for me..

Give a sleep of 5 seconds ahead of your desired command.