[ubuntu-in] LAMP versus XAMP

[Ramnarayan.K]

XAMPP isn't available in the normal repos, it needs to be downloaded as a
tarball and worked on from there.

What i gather is that xampp is meant for people who are not working on
production systems (or those online) it has lax security implementations

regards
ram

Ram
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Ninad Pundalik <ninadsp16289 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ram,
>
> Dumb questions first: Have you checked if the MySQL/MariaDB processes
> are running? Also, I am guessing that you've already checked the
> minimum requirements listed on the Joomla Install guides?
>
> Do Ubuntu's repositories have a XAMPP meta-package? If that is the
> case, synaptic/apt should take care of removing the conflicting
> versions from the lamp-server tasksel configuration. If XAMPP comes
> bundled with everything, I think you are in for a lot of work.
>
> Ninad
> Ninad S. Pundalik
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>
> On 30 August 2013 09:09, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Have been trying to install the L"AMP" stack. The AMP portion seems to be
> > succesfull (of coure the L part is already there) - all the AMP tests are
> > good. But then am trying to install Joomla and get an error
> >
> > "Could not connect to the database. Connector returned number: Could not
> > connect to MySQL."
> >
> > Tried googling but have not been able to find any good solutions. But am
> now
> > thinking of installing XAMPP , which it seems is good for non production
> > servers and is good for offline use and it is also almost a one command
> > install.
> >
> > However the question is can i install XAMPP over the existing L"AMP"
> stack
> > or do i need to uninstall the AMP portion first.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Ram
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