How to install XAMPP on Lubuntu 16.04

On lubuntu/ubuntu you can install Apache web server, PHP and MySQL separately as a service, but you can also use LAMP stack such as XAMPP. In this article i will show you how to install the latest XAMPP on Lubuntu 16.04.

By the time i wrote this article, the lastest XAMPP is version 7.1.10, it comes with php version 7.1, apache 2.4 and MariaDB 10, MariaDB is basically the same as MySQL.

Step by step how to install XAMPP on Lubuntu 16.04

• download the latest XAMPP for linux on the official website
• open command line/terminal on lubuntu (press CTRL + ALT + T)
• give permission to the xampp .run installer (assuming it's located at ~/Downloads/ folder)

chmod +rx ~/Downloads/xampp-linux-x64-7.1.10-0-installer.run

• run the xampp .run installer with sudo

sudo ~/Downloads/xampp-linux-x64-7.1.10-0-installer.run

• finish the xampp installation setup wizard (just click next-next)
• done!

How to start, stop, restart XAMPP from command line

starting xampp

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

stopping xampp

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop

restarting xampp

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

How to start, stop, restart XAMPP using GUI tool

You still need the command line to open the GUI tool though :)

sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

Where is XAMPP located?

By default xampp will be installed under /opt/lampp, and for the document root of apache web server is /opt/lampp/htdocs/, this is where you should put your web files such as html, css, php, js, and so on. You can visit http://localhost/ to access the local web server.