like Xampp, but want to emerge

snipes · Post by **snipes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:53 pm

I like the xampp package http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

But i want to learn how to use emerge to install apache, php, mysql, perl, etc instead of using xampp because i've had trouble getting xampp to start when the system boots/reboots. also I'm not sure how webmin would work with xampp either.
The thing is I know that they need to be installed in the right order for them to recognize each other, but I'm not sure what the order is.

I am going to try this walkthrough to see if it is compatible with GentooX (i think it should be)
http://www.benstrawbridge.com/worklogs/ ... hp?pg=lamp

Its quite long so I'll keep an eye out for a shorter one.

snipes · Post by **snipes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:40 pm

Holy Crap is that a pain in the butt..yea it takes way too long for me..

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time emerge sablotron php mod_php

i quit after about 2 hours

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Exiting on signal 2

real    129m41.390s
user    106m50.870s
sys     9m48.890s

Maybe xampp is the way to go if I can get it to start at boot.

can someone please help me to get it to start at boot?
the commands to start and stop are

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/opt/lampp/lampp start
/opt/lampp/lampp stop

the script "lampp" can be moved and run from anyware as long as its by root.
I tried to copy the script to /etc/init.d/ and run

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rc-update add lampp default

but it doesn't work for some reason. any help would be appreciated

snipes · Post by **snipes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:43 pm

OK, i was looking around on the net for an answer and i am a bit closer to understanding the boot process. but im still missing something.

After I rebooted my Linux box XAMPP stopped running! How can I fix this?
Correct. That's normal Linux behaviour (which applies to any other Unix-like system. It's the admin's job to make sure a particular application is started at bootup.

There is no real standard way to configure the boot process of a Linux system, but most of them should allow you to start XAMPP at boot time using the following steps.

1. First, find out your default runlevel.
Simply type egrep :initdefault: /etc/inittab.
You should no see a line containing a number between two colons.
In most cases 3 or 5 (2 if you're using Debian).

2. Go into the directory which configures this runlevel. If for example your runlevel is 3, then you have to change into the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory.

3. Now carry out the actual configuration by typing:

ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp S99lampp
ln -s /opt/lampp/lampp K01lampp

I read this and looked for the /etc/rc.d directory but it wasnt there.
but it does have the init.d and runlevel directorys. can someone explain how to make these instructions make sense?

snipes · Post by **snipes** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:29 am

I found what I was looking for at the XAMPP Forums. (duh)

I just needed to add this line to the end of /etc/conf.d/local.start

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/opt/lampp/lampp start