by Rabb » 14. June 2020 18:18
Hi Altrea,
Here's the process I went through -- there may be an explanation in here...
My initial goal was to have a functional installation of NextCloud, so I can run my own cloud server (and use CardDav, CalDav, etc). I also intend to install WordPress on the server for another project on which I collaborate. I started with a fresh installation of Mint 19.3.
When I first started on installing LAMP, I initially followed advice on several web pages that guided me through installing each of the components independently: Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP.
It was after I had started on that that a friend mentioned the XAMPP project, which sounds like a simpler, integrated, all-in-one installation.
So, I installed XAMPP. I _assumed_ (perhaps mistakenly) that it would either make use of the components I had already installed, or overwrite them.
After that installation I noticed that I now had MySQL on the server. It wasn't installed previously, so it appears that the only place it could have come from was the XAMPP installation. The XAMPP window also mentioned starting and stopping the various servers, including MySQL (not MariaDB).
If XAMPP sees that MariaDB is already installed, does it automatically install MySQL?
In any case, I'm going to remove everything, and start again from scratch with a fresh install of XAMPP.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks!