XAMPP for linux Installation not in /opt folder. Is it OK?

[fikri215]

I tried to install XAMPP in /home directory instead of in /opt directory as usual. Many errors came out because the comman path in XAMPP refered to /opt/lampp. I changed the path to /home/lamp instead of /opt/lampp. So i ran the lampp service but i get a other problem such as cannot read the mysqlclient library (libmysqlclient.so.15).

I installed xampp in /home because the /opt partion usage have reached its limit. To avoid it installed in /home directory.

May i install in another location instead of /opt? if yes, guide me to solve it.

TQ

[Wiedmann]

Make a Symlink from /opt/lampp to /home/lampp.

[fikri215]

Make a Symlink from /opt/lampp to /home/lampp.

How to do that?

[Wiedmann]

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/ln.1.php

[fikri215]

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/ln.1.php

Ok, thank you, let me start from beginning.

First, i extract the file like this:
tar zxvf xampp-linux-1.6.x.tar.gz -C /home

Then i create folder in /opt:
mkdir /opt/lampp

After that i make Symlink in /opt/lampp:
ln -s /home/lampp/lampp /opt/lampp/lampp

Is it true? If yes i got the same error.

[fikri215]

Please help me... Am i did is wright?

[fikri215]

Since the Symlink process above failed. I try my best to changed every file in lampp file that i thought relevent to change. What i did was i changed the PATH from /opt/lampp to /home/lampp. I changed in lampp executation file, php-config file, phpize file, phptar file and othe file in share folder. But i couldn't remember it.

When i ran the lampp, i got this error:

root@1[lampp]# lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.6.2...
/home/lampp/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL ...
XAMPP: Error 127! Couldn't start Apache!
XAMPP: Starting diagnose...
XAMPP: Sorry, I've no idea what's going wrong.
XAMPP: Please contact our forum http://community.apachefriends.org/f/
XAMPP: Another MySQL daemon is already running.
XAMPP: Another FTP daemon is already running.
XAMPP for Linux started.

anyone can help me.

[Dave_L]

The symlink method is the right way to do it.

But instead of:
mkdir /opt/lampp
ln -s /home/lampp/lampp /opt/lampp/lampp

do:
ln -s /home/lampp /opt/lampp