How to Install XAMPP 1.8.2-5 / 1.8.3-4 on Ubuntu 14.04

XAMPP stands for Cross-Platform (X), Apache (A), MySQL (M), PHP (P) and Perl (P). It is a completely free, lightweight, easy to install Apache distribution that makes it extremely easy for developers to create a local web server for testing purposes. All the components needed to set up a web server – server application (Apache), database (MySQL), and scripting language (PHP, Perl) – is included in a simple extractable file.

XAMPP is also cross-platform, which means it works well on Linux, Mac and Windows. Since most actual web server deployments use the same components as XAMPP, it makes transitioning from a local test server to a live server is extremely easy as well

The latest release XAMPP 1.8.2-5 &  1.8.3-4 both addresses the important OpenSSL Heartbleed security issue

v1.8.3-4

• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1g
• Updated Apache to 2.4.9
• Updated PHP to 5.5.11
• phpMyAdmin 4.1.12

v1.8.2-5

• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1g
• Updated Apache to 2.4.9
• Updated PHP to 5.4.27
• phpMyAdmin 4.1.12

Install XAMPP 1.8.3 with PHP 5.5 – Same procedure would work for XAMPP 1.8.2 with PHP 5.4. Just download the files from here

– Download the installer

32bit OS

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xampp/XAMPP%20Linux/1.8.3/xampp-linux-1.8.3-4-installer.run

64bit OS

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xampp/XAMPP%20Linux/1.8.3/xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run

– Run the installer

sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run
sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run

– Following the on-screen install to complete the installation. Click on ‘Go To Application‘. This would open up the browser

[box type=”info” icon=”info”]If no browser pops up, then stop & start XAMPP service

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

then enter following in your browser

http://localhost/xampp/

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– Now you have XAMPP running on your machine