vector and xampp

[evak]

thanks for the help with the the display problems i had.
trying to quit the newbie club, but I have quite a few problems.
vector has lampp installed, my question is where do you have the www directory? i would like to try creating a website, just for kicks :drown:

[Freston]

Vector with LAMP? Not by default as far as I can tell. How did you install it?

It does sit on my Slackbox *checks* /srv/www and /var/www
What does this do for you??

for i in `slocate www`; do 
   if [ -d $i ] ; then 
      echo "$i"
   fi 
done

[Chris H]

I don't have it installed currently but doesn't it use /opt/lampp/htdocs as the root folder?

[bryansmith]

I'm a little confused - are you trying to install php, mysql and apache or are you looking to install the xampp package from apachefriends?

If you're looking just to test out some web dev, the easier route may be to set up xampp. Instructions for just about everything you will need is listed there.

Bryan

[evak]

This is what the slocate thing does for me

slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old
slocate: fatal error: set_path_head: path_head len <= 0: 0

[Freston]

This is what the slocate thing does for me

Run this as root (it takes a while):

updatedb &

This updates the database wherein slocate searches for locations of files. Then you can try again...

...But I doubt it will come up with anything on your Vector box. What exactly did you install??


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If it's just for kicks, maybe you want to look into thttpd. I remember it being very easy to set up. It was in the Vec5.8 repo, but I can't find it in the 5.9 repo.

[evak]

when I run updatedb & i get

4033

the vector distro I have came with lampp and in it there is xampp in its directory

[Freston]

when I run updatedb & i get
4033

Yeah, that's the PID number for the process running in the background. The '&' sign at the end of the command sends the process to the background. I'm sorry, it's just a habit of mine to send processes that take a while to the back. That makes it easier to do other stuff in the mean time.

But I'm curious, what version of Vector are you running?

[evak]

Apparently I had downloaded a corrupt xampp 1.6.6 I will try todownload a fresh copy.. I will keep you posted

[evak]

I am using vector 5.0