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I have an external hard drive that I would like to use as the server - is it possible to install XAMPP in a different folder? Will the settings be changed according to the -C option used when untarring, or will I have to mount the hard drive to /opt to do this?

Thanks,
-K

This should do it for you.

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tar xampp-linux-xx.xx.xx.tar.gz -C /pathtodirectory/

Just make sure that you keep the settings consistent for wherever you install it.

So I won't have to edit every single file after that?

kulgan wrote:external hard drive that I would like to use as the server

I think XAMPP needs to be installed in /opt.

But you can relocate the web document directory from /opt/lampp/htdocs to somewhere else. Just edit /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf and search for instances of "/opt/lampp/htdocs".

If you want to support other services such as FTP, you may need to change other config files.

I think I will just start mounting the usb drive as opt, then :/

Might have to move a couple things, but I'm planning a reformat soon anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter.

Thanks, y'guys.

With Linux, you can create a symbolic link from /opt to wherever you want to install XAMPP. That's how I have it set up.

doesn't that just do one file?

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ln -s target name

never worked for more than that with me - what should I be using?

Thanks

You just need to create a symbolic link to a directory somewhere. For example, if you want to have opt under the home directory, you'd create a directory called opt under /home.

Then, as root, you'd create the symbolic link to the new opt directory:
ln -s /home/opt /opt

Well, I did that, but it seems there are permission errors with copying stuff, so it didn't copy the right files to the right places :/

However, what you suggested did work - I guess that I just didn't use slashes or soemthing...

I'll try installing in /opt as usual, then moving.

If you create the /opt symbolic link BEFORE installing, you shouldn't need to move anything. All of the configuration files will look in /opt and the symbolic link will resolve to the correct location.

That's an interesting idea - I can't seem to be able to copy anything anyways - with nautilus or command line :/

so, before untarring,

ln -s /media/DATA/lampp /opt/lampp ?
and then
tar -zxvf xampp.... -C /opt ?

thanks

well, I figured it out -

ln -ls /media/DATA/lampp /opt
tar -zxvf /home/user/Desktop/xampp.tar.gz -C /opt

and it installed on the external hard drive.

However, it wouldn't copy some of the files (e.g.

"lampp/share/terminfo/x/xterm-8bit
tar: lampp/share/terminfo/x/xterm-8bit: Cannot open: No such file or directory"

, and now it won't start Apache...

Did you perform the commands as root? Is the external drive partitioned as a linux file system such as ext3 or reiserfs (rather than fat32)?

Personally, when extracting a .tar, rather than figuring out how to make tar use a particular destination, I find it easier to extract into a temp directory, and then I move the extracted files where I want.

everything was done as root, there have been no problems prior to this with copying anything. The filesystem is vfat in the disk manager, and fat32 in gparted. Doesn't sound good :/

I will try the first way again...
It seems that it is the links making the problems. Does fat32 not use them, by any chance? Great... Just great...

Hi,

Symlinks to FAT32 Partitions are not possible AFAIK.
And FAT32 does not support the permission management which is required on Linux. Please use a ext2/3 Partition.

Regards,
Kristian Marcroft