Apache Friends Support Forum

Hi all,

I am very new to Linux (having just installed Ubuntu 12.10) and also new to XAMPP, which I installed because I want to run Lime Survey. I installed XAMPP from PPA and everything went well. However, I am having problems with the eAccelerator, which is deactivated. I tried to access opt/lampp/etc/php.ini but it says that permission is denied. Can anyone help me? Should I write anything before it? I tried it after writing sudo su in the terminal.

Many thanks.

On the presumption you entered both commands in terminal; 'su' and 'sudo' are mutually exclusive

'su' (which uses the 'root' password) makes you the 'root' in the Terminal session until you close the session or use the 'exit' directive. The prompt will change to [root@localhost cwd]#

'sudo' (which uses your user passowrd) make you the root for the execution of a single command in terminal.

If you did that part correctly and got the permission denied error, then you probably have an /opt/lampp ownership problem.

Good luck



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