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Title of script: XAMPP Installation

Author: Shahid Farooqui

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

Time Narration
00:00 Hello everyone. Welcome to this spoken tutorial on XAMPP Installation on Linux.
00:05 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.
00:19 In the past, this software was called LAMPP. But to avoid misconceptions it was renamed XAMPP for Linux.
00:27 XAMPP is easy to install.XAMPP is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Solaris.
00:35 I am using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04
00:39 You should have admin access.
00:41 The first step is to download XAMPP for Linux.
00:44 XAMPP for Linux can be downloaded at from following link
00:48 http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]
00:58 Switch to the website.
00:59 Links are also available to download XAMPP for Windows, for Mac OSX and Solaris.
01:09 We will choose the XAMPP for Linux link.
01:13 Let us click here.
01:14 Scroll down and click on Step1 to Download
01:19 Now click on XAMPP Linux 1.7.7 and follow the steps to download it.
01:26 I have already downloaded this file on Desktop in order to save time.
01:30 Now open a terminal by pressing the keys Ctrl, Alt and T simultaneously.
01:37 A terminal window appears on the screen.
01:40 Type the command.cd space Desktop and press Enter to change the directory to Desktop
01:48 Type the command.lsand press Enter to display the content of the Desktop.
01:55 XAMPP installation file is available on Desktop.
01:58 Type the command.sudo space tar space xvfz space xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz space -C space /opt
02:13 Type the sudo password and press Enter.
02:16 Sorry I typed the wrong password that is why it giving me the error "Sorry, try again"
02:23 Type the correct sudo password and press Enter.So, we have successfully extracted the downloaded archive.
02:33 Now, type the command.cd space /opt and press Enter to change the directory to opt.
02:43 Type the command.ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory opt.
02:50 XAMPP is now installed under the /opt/lampp directory.
02:57 Type the command.cd space lampp
03:02 Type the command.ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory lampp.
03:09 The next step is to start XAMPP.
03:13 Type the command.sudo space /opt/lampp/lampp space startand press Enter
03:27 Enter the sudo password and Press Enter
03:32 XAMPP for Linux has sucsessfully started.
03:36 Now let us test our XAMPP installation.
03:40 I will switch to the Firefox browser for this purpose.
03:43 Type the URL http://localhost in address bar and press Enter.
03:55 You will see the URL http://localhost/xampp splash.php in your web browser.
04:07 This shows that the Apache server is running.Now I will create my home page in html.
04:15 It will be displayed on the web browser
04:18 Switch to the terminal.Type the command.cd space /opt/lampp/htdocsand Press Enter to change the directory to /opt/lampp/htdocs
04:36 This is the path of our web directory
04:39 Type the command.sudo space mkdir space myhomepageand Press Enter to create the directory myhomepage
04:51 Type the command.ls and press Enter to display the content of the directory htdocs.
04:58 Type the command.cd space myhomepagePress Enter to change the directory to myhomepage
05:08 Now I will create my home page in html
05:12 Type the command.sudo space gedit space index.htmlPress Enter to create index.html using gedit text editor.
05:32 To learn HTML, please watch the tutorials available on our website.
05:37 In order to save time, I will copy-paste an HTML code here
05:43 Text written between the title tag will be displayed on the title bar of the browser.
05:49 Text written between the body tag will be displayed in the browser.
05:54 Click on "Save" button to save the file.Close the gedit window.
05:59 Switch back to Firefox browser
06:02 Type the URL http://localhost/myhomepage and press Enter.
06:13 You can see the welcome message is displayed in the web browser.
06:20 So that's how we install, start and test XAMPP.
06:26 Switch back to slide.I will now talk about the Spoken Tutorial Project
06:31 Watch the video available at http://spoken- tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial
06:42 It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
06:46 If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
06:51 The Spoken Tutorial Project Team.Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.
06:57 Gives certificates to those who pass an online test.
07:01 For more details, contact sptutemail@gmail.com
07:06 Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
07:11 It is supported by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India
07:17 More information on this mission is available at, http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
07:27 We have come to the end of this tutorial.
07:30 Thanks for joining.
07:32 This is Shahid Farooqui from IIT Bombay signing off.

Good Bye



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