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| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Hello everyone. Welcome to this tutorial on XAMPP Installation on Linux. |
| 00:08 | In this tutorial, we will learn:
How to install XAMPP on Linux How to create & run a php file. |
| 00:18 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
Ubuntu Linux OS 14.04 FireFox Web Browser and Gedit Text editor. |
| 00:32 | To install XAMPP, you should have-
A working Internet connection and Admin access to your computer. |
| 00:41 | You should also have basic knowledge of Linux commands. If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website. |
| 00:52 | XAMPP is a free and Open source web server package. |
| 00:58 | XAMPP consists of: Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, Interpreters for scripts written in PHP and Perl. |
| 01:12 | XAMPP is easy to install. It is available for GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows and Solaris operating systems. |
| 01:23 | Let's download XAMPP for Linux. |
| 01:27 | Open the web browser on your machine. |
| 01:31 | In the Address bar, type: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html and press Enter. |
| 01:44 | Scroll down the page. |
| 01:47 | Here XAMPP is available to download for all operating systems. |
| 01:53 | Visit XAMPP for Linux section. You can see the recent version of Xampp. |
| 02:01 | My system is a 64bit OS. So under version 5.5.19 / PHP 5.5.19, |
| 02:11 | I will select Download (64 bit). |
| 02:15 | The download will start. |
| 02:18 | I have already downloaded this file in my Downloads folder. |
| 02:24 | So, I will skip downloading step. |
| 02:28 | Now open the terminal. |
| 02:31 | On the terminal, type the command cd space Downloads and press Enter. |
| 02:40 | This will change the current working directory to Downloads. |
| 02:46 | Now, type the command ls and press Enter. |
| 02:51 | This will display the contents of the Downloads folder. |
| 02:56 | Here is our XAMPP installation file. |
| 03:00 | Let's give executable permission to the file |
| 03:04 | so that we can run this file. Type: chmod space +x space filename and press Enter. |
| 03:18 | Now to run the file, type: sudo space dot slash (./) filename and press Enter. |
| 03:29 | Enter the admin password if required. |
| 03:34 | Setup wizard dialog box opens. |
| 03:38 | Click on Next button whenever required and follow the installation steps as shown. |
| 03:46 | Uncheck Learn more about Bitnami for XAMPP check box. |
| 03:52 | Click on Next. |
| 03:54 | Once the installation is done, uncheck Launch XAMPP check box and click on Finish. |
| 04:04 | This installation will create lampp folder in the system's opt folder. |
| 04:12 | Let's go there and have a look. |
| 04:15 | From the launcher on the left, click on Files folder icon. |
| 04:21 | On the left panel, under Devices section, click on Computer. |
| 04:29 | You can see the system files. Double-click on opt folder to open it. |
| 04:38 | Here it is- the lampp folder. Open this folder. |
| 04:44 | Here we can see several sub-folders. |
| 04:48 | Locate the folder named htdocs. |
| 04:53 | This is our Web server Appache's root directory. |
| 04:58 | We have to save our PHP code file inside this folder to run it. |
| 05:05 | The Apache's root directory will be /opt/lampp/htdocs or /var/www, based on your installation process. |
| 05:24 | To make htdocs folder writable, we have to change the permission. |
| 05:30 | So, on the terminal, type: sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs and press Enter. |
| 05:56 | Enter the admin password if required. |
| 06:00 | Now let's check whether Xampp is running or not. |
| 06:04 | Open the web browser. In the Address bar, type localhost and press Enter. |
| 06:15 | It shows message “Unable to connect”. |
| 06:20 | It seems Xampp services are not running. |
| 06:23 | To start the services, type on the terminal: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start and press Enter. |
| 06:40 | Enter admin password if required. |
| 06:44 | This will start all the Xampp services. |
| 06:47 | Go back to the web browser and refresh the page. |
| 06:52 | Here it is! The welcome screen of Xampp. |
| 06:56 | It will ask us to choose the default language. I will select English. |
| 07:03 | Xampp is running perfectly now. |
| 07:06 | Let's write a sample php code and run it. |
| 07:11 | In htdocs, let's create a folder named phpacademy. |
| 07:16 | In future, I will save all my php files in this folder. |
| 07:23 | This is to ensure that my files don't get over-written by someone else. |
| 07:30 | Open the phpacademy folder. Let us create a php file. |
| 07:37 | Right-click and select New Document and Empty document. Name it as demo.php. |
| 07:48 | Open the demo.php in Gedit text editor. |
| 07:53 | You can use any editor of your choice. |
| 07:59 | Type: less than question mark php enter echo space in double quotes "Hello India” semicolon enter question mark greater than |
| 08:20 | To save the file, press Ctrl and S keys simultaneously. |
| 08:27 | Go back to the web browser. |
| 08:29 | In the address bar, type: localhost/phpacademy and press Enter. |
| 08:40 | This will display the list of files inside the phpacademy folder. |
| 08:47 | Here is our file demo.php; click on it. |
| 08:53 | Message Hello India is displayed. |
| 08:57 | To stop Xampp services, type on the terminal: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop and press Enter. |
| 09:13 | Enter the admin password if required. |
| 09:17 | XAMPP services will stop running. Whenever you wish to run Xampp again in future, remember to start it first. |
| 09:27 | Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we have learnt-
How to install, start and stop XAMPP services. How to create and run a PHP file. |
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