Installing PHP on Linux - Basic Bytes Tutorial

Here I will show you how to install PHP (in the form of XAMPP on Linux). I used Ubuntu for the demo because it's the distro that I know, but as far as I know this should work for most.

To get the files go to http://www.apachefriends.org.

Here's the terminal commands you'll need -
'sudo su' to make yourself the super user
'tar xvfz [name of downloaded file goes here] -C /opt' to extract the downloaded folder
'/opt/lampp/lampp start' to start XAMPP
'/opt/lampp/lampp stop' to stop XAMPP

If you'd like a more in-depth teach in, this is a good tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMMwprdpouI

(Note - Sorry, the video encoding messed up on Linux and there is some slight jitter)

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• php
• xampp
• linux
• extract
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