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I have lampp up and working under Ubuntu 12.04. I would like to have a separate lampp installed in a different folder in /opt (e.g. /opt/lampp2) with its own database and files, so that I select between them by choosing which lampp command to run. I untarred the file ok, and ran lampp ok, but mysql still goes to the same database. How to I get separate databases for separate installations (i.e. is /opt/lampp hardwired in some config files that need changing)?

Thanks for any help.

Bashing myself over the head for not thinking of it sooner.

Quick solution:

Install each lampp in /opt/lampp.1, /opt/lampp.2 etc. and have /opt/lampp be a symbolic link. Change the symbolic link and launch from /opt/lampp.

Hello

I need to do the same thing on my ubuntu. But I am not as experienced a you. In fact I am a newbie at this.
First Question:
I installed successfully my first lampp. How should I untar for the second installation. If I use:

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tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt

My files will get overwritten
If i use:

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tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt/lampp2

I am sure it will install on opt/lampp2/lampp. Which I looks awful.

Another question if I already have first lampp working correctly, can I change it to lampp.1 as suggested with out any other problems?
Also what is that symbolic link you talk about?

Thanks

Very late reply, but maybe others who are looking for the sam thing are ending up at this forum, too.

I was looking for the same problem and the information on this website seems to be
helpful.
http://meows.us/my-life/running-multiple-versions-of-xampp-on-ubuntu-linux/