Help me running wamp server

[harishbayyavarapu]

I followed the link below
HOWTO: Setup easy web development environment (XAMPP) - Page 4 - Ubuntu Forums

I was able to install from the instructions in the link, but i get following errors.Please help me
It gets stuck up at the last line...It doesnt go to the next line. Moreover after running Open Source and Linux Forums
I get cannot establish connection to the server at localhost.

harish@harish-laptop:~$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.5.3a...
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
/opt/lampp/bin/mysql.server: 84: source: not found
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.
harish@harish-laptop:~$ /opt/lampp/bin/mysql.server: 334: log_success_msg: not found

Please experts help me... !!
Thanks in advance

[b2bwild]

You should call it LAMP, not WAMP as you are on Linux.

I have Used XAMPP on Windows but not Linux.
XAMPP is nothing but a bundle on free software.

I would recommend to Install Apache, MySQL Server, mod_php, and mod_perl
using your package manager.

[magnetic]

looks like your mysql server is not running

I would be that you have mysql server installed on your box .. before you downloaded and installed xampp. Make sure that you have it uninstalled or at least not started.. or disabled... before you try to start the xampp start script.

you can do a "ps -ef | grep mysqld" on the commandline to see if it is running.

you can disable it through the gui or .. if you are running a .rpm based distro.

chkconfig --del mysqld

[harishbayyavarapu]

Yes, I have installed apache using add/remove applications.
and installed mysql and php using sudo apt-get install mysql-5.1 and sudp apt-get install php-cli
Now, how do i configure the php.ini file so that i can start working on php..

[magnetic]

you have to decide... are you going to use xampp for your webserver/database/web stuff.. or are you going to install it all naively.. each package individually and get them running together.

It would be hard to do it half and half.

[harishbayyavarapu]

I thought lamp would speed my things up.. but i was unsuccessful with that method, or if any one can resolve my problem i can use the lamp instead of going in a traditional way for my web development..

This is the output for the command give
harish@harish-laptop:~$ ps -ef | grep mysqld
harish 13529 13497 0 11:49 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mysqld

Well, I will uninstall mysql and php and go back to the first method
please help me..I have couple of days left to start my project.

[elija]

Have a look at this how to. It is for setting up a server OS but the MySQL, Apache, PHP instructions will apply to the desktop edition just as well.

[harishbayyavarapu]

It really takes time for me to reinstall all the stuff again.. from the scratch !!!
Can any one show me a way to deal with this ?

[harishbayyavarapu]

I figured out my problem... I am able to run the lampp server !!

Thanks for the help !!

[b2bwild]

Have a look at this how to. It is for setting up a server OS but the MySQL, Apache, PHP instructions will apply to the desktop edition just as well.

Thats a very good guide to follow,

well, still i will say, its better to have centralized installation of every component in lamp, instead of using XAMPP.

But its fine now, as you have solved the problem with it