installing lampp on debian
The Devil is on details. If you don't pay attention, made a big mistake: when apachefriends installer finished, Firefox starts and displays index.html, the Debian welcome to Apache 2, "It works!". So what? Apache 2 server runs, not LAMPP. This shows two messages about net problems. Fixed with: sudo apt install net-tools But Apache 2 uses /var/www/html as default directory on Debian. LAMPP not: /opt/lampp/htdocs (You must to give a+w permissions to /opt/lampp/htdocs). What on earth! Another application was running Apache 2. Review with: systemctl status apache2 Never mind if sky tears-down: stop it. stopping another apache 2 server That's all. Finally, execute: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start If you are a lucky demned ireland, you should see: "Starting XAMPP for Linux ..." xampp starting/stopping commands