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I am using CentOS where I have installed Xampp. ...
How can I make it work?
The way to make it work is to uninstall XAMPP and work with the normal tools available to CentOS. XAMPP is only for M$ Windows, on other systems it just hurts and gets in the way. You'll find it much, much easier to install and maintain standard tools from the repositories instead.
The way to make it work is to uninstall XAMPP and work with the normal tools available to CentOS. XAMPP is only for M$ Windows, on other systems it just hurts and gets in the way. You'll find it much, much easier to install and maintain standard tools from the repositories instead.
I beg to differ. For use as a local testing server, XAMPP works well on Linux and, once set up, is easier to manage than setting up your own LAMP stack for this purpose, although updating it takes more time (you essentially you have to update the whole thing in one go, which takes a few minutes). So, if you are only running a local testing server, XAMPP is a good solution.
In saying that, if you have an internet or local network-facing server which folk which will actually be using live then you should set up your own LAMP stack.
Hmm. I strongly disagree with anything that avoids using the normal package manager and XAMPP falls under that category. Additional disadvantages include that there is much more overhead for installation, monitoring for updates and installing the updates is more work, the applications and data end up in wrong, non-standard locations, and (last I checked) you get redundant copies of python, perl, and perhaps PHP and their modules. Further there is no link that I can find to the source code anywhere on their web site so I can not dig deeper to see more. That last point ought to be a big red flag to anyone.
tldr; failing to use the standard package manager is impractical and thus a deal-breaker.
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