Not able run the application after downlaod on Mac

[anand]

Hi,

I have recently downloaded the Xampp for Mac OS and i using a MacBook Pro Intel version 2GHz Intel Core Duo.

After the downlaod i opened the terminal and ran the sudo su command which prompted me for the password dialog. After which i typed the password as shown on the website. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

This is the message i see on my terminal window.

Last login: Sat Dec 23 10:33:18 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
stars-computer:~ Renukanand$ sudo su

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts

I am not a techie but i do understand some basics. Could you please guide me as to how i can load the Xampp successfully on my MAC.

Please aslo let me know where i am going wrong.

I downloaded the file on my desktop. Do you think that this error may be due to the where the downloaded file is stored(i mean the desktop)

I greatly appreciate your feedback in this matter.

Best regards,
Anand

[Kristian Marcroft]

Dear Anand,

for "sudo su" you need to be an admin user on your MacBook.
When it prompts for a password, this is _your_ password, which you
use to login to your MacBook or to install updates etc.

Regards,
Kristian Marcroft

[anand]

Hi Kristan

Thank you so much for helping me out.

I have finally managed to load the application and after i open the Xampp Main Page and click on the English to enter this is the message i see on the screen


Warning: fopen(lang.tmp) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/lang.php on line 2

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/lang.php on line 3

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/lang.php on line 4

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/lang.php:2) in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/lang.php on line 5

Looks like MySQl the database is not running. Can you please let me know how i can resolve this problem.

Appreciate all your help in advance.

Regards,
Anand

PS Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Dear Anand,

for "sudo su" you need to be an admin user on your MacBook.
When it prompts for a password, this is _your_ password, which you
use to login to your MacBook or to install updates etc.

Regards,
Kristian Marcroft

[mistermartin75]

I had this too, this means you did not succesfully do this:

After downloading simply run the following commands in a terminal:

Installation requires an admin account.
# Enter „sudo su“. You will be prompted for a password.
# tar xfvz xampp-macosx-0.6a.tar.gz -C /

Notice: all old installations of XAMPP for MacOS X will be overwritten!

That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /Applications/xampp directory.

If not done correctly, all permissions are broken inside the xampp folder, thus resulting in the fopen and fwrite errors.