Installing lampp on ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Question

I am trying to install lamp on ubuntu 14.04 LTS. After installing, I did

sudo su
/opt/lampp/lampp start

It gives me this error :

Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.8-0... XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail. XAMPP: Another web server is already running. XAMPP: Starting mySQL...ok.

How do I make Apache work and what could be that another web server already running?

Answer 1

You've already got a web server running on port 80. I see three viable choices:

1. Move XAMPP's version of Apache to a different port.
2. Move whatever httpd is running on port 80 to another port (or remove it)
3. Just install lamp-server^ (a real production stack) and stop messing around with XAMPP (which is really just a toy for Windows developers)

Answer 2

sidra@sidra-7G-Series:~$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.8-0...

XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.

XAMPP: Another web server is already running.

XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.

XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...already running.

sidra@sidra-7G-Series:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

• Stopping web server apache2 * sidra@sidra-7G-Series:~$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.8-0...

XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok.

XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.

XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...already running.

Answer 3

Do

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

Stopping web server apache2 * 

and then

$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start