PHP-and-MySQL/C2/XAMPP-in-Linux/English

Title of script: XAMPP Installation

Author: Shahid Farooqui

Keywords: XAMPP Video Tutorial, Apache, LAMPP, Web Server

Time	Narration
Slide1	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on XAMPP Installation on Linux
Slide2	XAMPP is a free and open source web server package. XAMPP consists of Apache HTTP Server MySQL database Interpreters for scripts written in PHP and Perl programming languages.
Slide3	In the past, this software was called LAMPP. But to avoid misconceptions it was renamed XAMPP for Linux.
Slide4	XAMPP is easy to install. XAMPP is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Solaris. I am using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 You should have admin access.
Slide5 Switch to the website.	The first step is to download XAMPP for Linux. XAMPP for Linux can be downloaded from the following link http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Switch to the website.
Point to the various links. Point to XAMPP-LINUX link and click.	Links are also available to download XAMPP for Windows, Mac OSX and Solaris. We will choose the XAMPP for Linux link. Let us click here.
Scroll down >> click on Step1-Download	Scroll down & click on Step1-Download
Click on XAMPP Linux 1.7.x	Now click on XAMPP Linux 1.7.7 and follow the steps to download it.
Switch to the Desktop.	I have already downloaded this file on the Desktop.
Press Ctrl+ Alt+T simultaneously.	Now open a terminal by pressing the keys Ctrl, Alt and T simultaneously.
In the terminal window, type cd Desktop >> press Enter.	A terminal window appears on the screen. Type the command cd space Desktop and press Enter to change the directory to Desktop
Type ls >> press Enter.	Type the command ls and press Enter to display the content of the Desktop. XAMPP installation file is available on the Desktop.
Type tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.x.tar.gz -C /opt. >> Press Enter.	Type the command sudo space tar space xvfz space xampp-linux-1.7.x.tar.gz space -C space /opt This command will extract the downloaded archive file to /opt folder. Press Enter.
Type password >>Press Enter.	Type the sudo password and press Enter. Sorry I typed the wrong password that is why it giving me the error "Sorry, try again"
Type password >> Press Enter.	Type the correct sudo password and press Enter. So, we have successfully extracted the downloaded the archive.
Type cd /opt >> Press Enter.	Now, type the command cd space /opt and press Enter to change the directory to opt.
Type ls >> Press Enter.	Type the command ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory opt. XAMPP is now installed under the /opt/lampp directory.
Type cd space lampp	Type the command cd space lampp and press Enter to change the directory to lampp
Type ls >> Press Enter.	Type the command ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory lampp.
Type /opt/lampp/lampp start >> Press Enter.	The next step is to start XAMPP. Type the command sudo space /opt/lampp/lampp space start press Enter
Type password >> Press Enter	Type the sudo password and Press Enter XAMPP for Linux has sucsessfully started.
	Now let us test our XAMPP installation. I will switch to the Firefox browser for this purpose.
In the address bar, type http://localhost/ http://localhost and press Enter	Type the URL http://localhost/ http://localhost in the address bar and press Enter. You will see the URL http://localhost/xampp/splash.php in your web browser. This shows that the Apache server is running. Now I will create my home page in html. It will be displayed in the web browser
Switch to the terminal. Type cd /opt/lampp/htdocs	Switch to the terminal. Type the command cd space /opt/lampp/htdocs Press Enter to change the directory to /opt/lampp/htdocs This is the path of our web directory
Type sudo space mkdir space myhomepage	Type the command sudo space mkdir space myhomepage Press Enter to create the directory myhomepage
Type ls	Type the command ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory htdocs.
Type cd space myhomepage	Type the command cd space myhomepage Press Enter to change the directory to myhomepage Now I will create my home page in html
Type sudo space gedit space index.html	Type the command sudo space gedit space index.html Press Enter to create index.html using gedit text editor.
	To learn HTML, please watch the tutorials available on our website.
Copy-paste HTML code	In order to save time, I will copy-paste an HTML code here Text written between the title tag will be displayed on title bar of the browser. Text written between the body tag will be displayed in the browser.
Click on "Save" button	Click on "Save" button to save the file
Close the gedit window.	Close the gedit window.
Switch back to Firefox browser	Switch back to Firefox browser
Type the URL http://localhost/ http://localhost/myhomepage	Type the URL http://localhost/ http://localhost/myhomepage and press Enter. You can see the welcome message is displayed in the web browser.
	So that's how we install, start and test XAMPP. Switch back to slide
Slide6 (don't read the URL - just display on the slide)	I will now talk about the Spoken Tutorial Project Watch the video available at http://spoken- tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project. If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
Slide7	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. Gives certificates to those who pass an online test. For more details, contact sptutemail@gmail.com
Slide8 (spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro)	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this mission is available at, http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
Slide9	We have come to the end of this tutorial. Thanks for joining. This is Shahid Farooqui from IIT Bombay signing off. Good Bye

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