I have installed XAMPP v1.8.3 for my PHP development. I am new to Ubuntu, so I don't know how to set environment variable for PHP which is located at /opt/lampp/bin/php
.
I can run PHP scripts from localhost
just fine, but I wanted to run them from the command line as well.
I want to set this variable for every user, since I am the only one who uses this system.
Best Answer
Environment variables are set in
/etc/environment
. You will find the$PATH
variable in this file. This variable stores the path to binaries in various locations.To add
/opt/lampp/bin
to the location searched for binary files, just append this path preceded by a:
to the path variable.For example, if the
$PATH
variable was:add
/opt/lampp/bin
to the end of it, so that it becomes:After doing this, do a
source /etc/environment
.