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I just installed XAMPP for Linux and I'd like to change the data directories for MySQL and Apache from the default (under /opt/lampp) to more typical locations. Normally MySQL data is stored in /var/lib, Apache is usually in /home/htdocs or similar.

It appears that there are a couple of scripts that need to change to make this work. Is it better to change the startup scripts, or just create symlinks from the respective directories under /opt/lampp to the desired locations?

Thanks!

Hi,

Symlinks will be better...
Some Paths you won't be able to change, cos they are staticly compiled..
So Symlinks is the best solution...

So long
KriS

Hi,

I too wanted to do the same thing as Infotactix asked. So I did exactly what you suggested: create a symlink:

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# mv /opt/lampp/htdocs /home
# cd /opt/lampp
# ln -s /home/htdocs htdocs

It did work perfectly Thanks a lot for your suggestion, Kristian!

All I wanted to change was the apache directory, and I did that my modifying two lines in httpd.conf at around line 350... I haven't had any problems since.