Ubuntu – Should someone install Apache, MySQL etc. or use ready-made packets like XAMPP for PHP development

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Do you use a webserver development package (like XAMPP) or do you install apache, mysql, php per package for PHP / Perl / Python / etc. development?
What is your practical experience?

I have experienced so far:

[-] XAMPP may causes some problems (stability, performance, dependency with other packages) on Linux – Ubuntu
[+] XAMPP allows you easily to package your whole web development environment and share it with your team members
[~] No easy updates with XAMPP via apt-get update? But who really wants to stay his web-server development environment up-to-date?

(By the way, I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.)

Best Answer

Never use XAMP. It is third party software with all the possible security problems. I would always avoid third party software if there is a better version.

Use the native LAMP stack (so no need to install all the packages seperatly).

sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel

and choose LAMP:

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The setup is pre-configured for Ubuntu and asks for a admin password to set up MySQL.

It is the easiest setup there is. Plus you are going to get all the updates for each of the individual packages. And anyone on AskUbuntu will be able to help you since it is the standard/default version.

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Quicker method:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

The ^ makes it install the task.

Install Apache 2.4.4

Before installing Apache 2.4.4, you should install PCRE, otherwise it will not succeed. The process of installing PCRE is simple. After you downloaded it, run in terminal next commands:
```
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
```
Download APR and APR-Util from http://apr.apache.org, unpack them to Apache directory, /srclib/apr and /srclib/apr-util (no version numbers in the directory names) and type following commands to install Apache:
```
sudo ./configure --with-included-apr
sudo make
sudo make install
```

Type following command to start Apache:

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

There may be something wrongs like:

/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Type following command to see httpd’s shared library dependencies:

ldd httpd

Found "libpcre.so.1 => not found", then type the following command to update links:

sudo ldconfig

Restart Apache and should work.

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Install PHP 5.4.16

Download PHP 5.4.16 from http://php.net/downloads.php
Check this post to see how to install a .tar.bz2 file: How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?

Install MySQL 5.5.31

Download MySQL 5.5.31 from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html. In fact, MySQL 5.5.32 is the latest version.
Check this post see how to install a .rpm file: How do I install and manage RPMs?

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