by Ray
18. May 2010 02:14
First and foremost, I’d like to say I’ve been a Microsoft guy all my life. With
that said, I am not so closed minded that I don’t realize that there are other solutions
and technologies other than those supported by Microsoft. Recently I’ve been getting
into the LAMP space for three main reasons. The first is that I had a need to generate
income outside of my current job and far and away PHP is the big web technology
for the customers I want to target. Secondly it’s free. Thirdly there seems to be
a wealth of information about pretty much everything.
The other day I downloaded openSUSE 11.3 and the newest version of XAMPP to go ahead
and kick off the learning process and boy was I surprised at how easy it was to
get everything installed and up and running. Satisfied with my progress I turned
my VM off and went off to dreamland.
The next morning I woke up, booted up my VM to start playing with my new toy, and
realized that XAMPP was not running and actually needed to be started manually each
time. This was not an acceptable for me so I went and found the solution to this
problem via the XAMPP FAQ and a few other sites. Listed below are the steps in which
I took.
- Navigate to GNOME Terminal by clicking on Computer and then selecting More Applications.
On the left hand side of the Application Browser, type in Gnome Terminal and then
press enter. This will start gnome Terminal.
- Within the command prompt type the following command line in to get your current
runlevel, egrep :initdefault: /etc/inittab/. This will return your runlevel in the
format id: (x) : initdefault: where (x) is your runlevel. In most cases this number
should be either 3 or 5. Both runlevel’s represent multi-user modes the difference
between the two is that a runlevel of 3 means that only console logins are being
used while a runlevel of 5 means that you are leveraging the display manager.
- Now that you have your run level, type the following within the command prompt:
cd /etec/rc.d/rc(x).d where (x) is your runlevel
from the previous step. Next create a symbolic link with the following entry, ln –s /opt/lampp/lampp /etc/inti.d/lamp
- The final step is to activate the symbolic link that you just created. There are
two ways in which you can do this, you can either use YaST or for the hardcore guys
out there you can use the chkconfig command. Being that I’m a Linux newbie, I chose
to do this with YaST. Open YaST by clicking the computer button and then selecting
it from the menu on the right hand side of the computer pop up screen. If you are
not logged on as a super user, you will be asked to provide credentials.
- Within the YaST Control Center window type in run
within the filter box and then press enter, this will start the
Systems Services application.
- Scroll down until you find the entry for lamp. Left click the entry and then click
the enable button at the bottom of the system services Window.
- Close out all YaST windows, YaST will save the configuration settings that you just
made upon exit. Your XAMPP installation will now run automatically upon boot.
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