Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[snayak]

Hi,

Which LAMP server pet/sfs is available to use on wary 5?

I mean apache/mysql/php package.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

[L18L]

Do you really need a pet or sfs

I have used always just
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
in /opt

Now I would take /mnt/home/opt to be able to use it from any puppy

[L18L]

You will always need a symlink.
If you have your lampp in /mnt/home/opt then

[snayak]

Many many thanks.

I'll do the same.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

[snayak]

Dear L18L,

I did

tar xzvf xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz -C /mnt/sda5/xampp

it gave a lot of error like,

tar: lampp/etc/openssl.cnf: Cannot create symlink to `/opt/lampp/share/openssl/openssl.cnf': Operation not permitted
tar: lampp/htdocs/xampp/.version: Cannot create symlink to `/opt/lampp/lib/VERSION': Operation not permitted

How to install xampp to some other directory but not to /opt?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

[snayak]

Is it because /mnt/sda5 is FAT?

[mcewanw]

Make a directory called opt in /mnt/home.

If you already have stuff in /opt, move it all into the new /mnt/home/opt.

Then put a symlink in / pointing to /mnt/home/opt.

Put your xampp in the new opt, which really is /mnt/home/opt.

Something along these lines should work. I got it to work when my /mnt/home was on an ntfs partition, so fat should be okay here for xampp at least.

[mcewanw]

A slight modification to the above, which is what I do, is to create a dummy directory called opt. Best to do so on a linux filesystem to make sure permissions and all internal symlinks work okay. Then untar your xampp into that, and finally make that into an sfs (the sfs should be made such that it only contains the folder opt and its lampp contents). There are various howto's on the forum about making sfs. The sfs can then be stored on /mnt/home regardless of the underlying filesystem.

[snayak]

Dear mcewanw,

Many thanks for your idea.
I created an sfs.
It is working!

By the way, if I put some files in /opt/lampp/htdocs, and reboot my machine, will those files be there after reboot?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

[mcewanw]

[snayak]

Dear mcewanw,

Many thank for your suggestions. I did sfs and it worked. Also the files saved inside /opt/lampp/htdocs are remaining after reboot.

I am surprised that how it is being kept.
As you said it goes to pupsave.
That means it doesnot change the sfs file itself? Then how it is being stored in pupsave? Any idea? Till date I was thinking pupsave is the /root directory.


Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak