How To Install Xampp In Ubuntu

Xampp is free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database and

interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl Programming language.
Xampp previously known as Lampp.

To begin the installation download xampp from official website.

Now follow the steps to install xampp:
Place your downloaded xampp tar.gz file in Desktop folder.
Open terminal [ctrl+alt+T].

Now run below command in terminal.

cd Desktop
[ D is capital in Desktop]

sudo -s

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt
(Note: This version will install xampp 1.8.1 version If you want to install another version then replace xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz with your version).

sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs

Installing process finished. Now you can start xampp.
 To start type following command in terminal. 
  
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Xampp server will as follows:

(Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.)

To stop type following command in terminal.

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop