Lampp 1.7.7 on Linux Mint [Solved]

[Tcemobarak]

Hi!

I am a new Linux Mint user. Before using Linux I use Windows 7.

Linux is difficult to me more more then windows.

I want to a web developer. So I install Xampp web server in Linux Mint.
On directory /opt using this command
su
my password
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz -C /opt
/opt/lampp/lampp start
It show me welcome page so I think this install is perfect.

Now i want to upload my created files and folders on /opt/lampp/htdocs
but I can't upload my files and folder normally by copy past.

Then I open as administrator /opt/lampp/htdocs and past successfully my files and folders.

But is didn't work successfully.

What I should do now?

Please guide me using drupal-7.10.tar.gz cms.
Please guide me how to upload file using ProFTPD.

Note: I didn't set any new security setting of Lampp.

[JonB]

OK -

You have a few hurdles to overcome.

A. - you need to learn about file permissions and ownership in Linux/Unix. I will get you started, but this is not the place to learn Linux.

The problem is that the files in the /opt/lampp/htdocs folder (and below) need to belong to the user 'nobody' and the group 'root'. When you (as a linux user) download files they belong to you as a user aand as a Linux group. They are located in your 'home' folders that what the tilde (~) represents. In order to use them with lampp you need to change their ownership.

the command (using su or sudo) that will fix that is:

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chown -R nobody:root /opt/lampp/htdocs/foldername/*   

where 'foldername' is the location where you placed the files

http://ss64.com/bash/chown.html

B. - you will also need to understand file permissions. Generally for opt/lampp/htdocs, folders should be 755, and files 644, although there are exceptions.

http://ss64.com/bash/chmod.html

Linux training -
You should either find a website for this, or get a book. Used books are very inexpensive, and the command line bash doesn't change much, so any book would probably do.

Here's a free tutorial course -
http://linuxsurvival.com/

You don't need to use ProFTPd to upload unless you are on a different machine. It works with any FTP client (such as Filezilla). The matter of user and password are coverd on the XAMMP for Linux pages
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html


As for the other things, you don't learn anything by me telling you how to make it work...

Good Luck

[Tcemobarak]

Thanks for your respond.
Now I can solve this. It's easy.

I can't use ProFTPd to upload.

First i change my document root "/www" by editing httpd.conf and make www shareable.

That's it.

It make Lammp as like windows way.