How to install JDK, LAMPP server and Netbeans IDE(UBUNTU 12.04)

Installing OpenJDK:

Hey there again every one! Today I am going to show you how to set up the LAMPP server(XAMPP) on your Ubuntu 12.04.

Lets start with installing JDK(OpenJDK). The steps are as follows:

1) Open the terminal and key in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre   // wait until the process downloads and installs the jre.

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk  // again wait until the process downloads and installs the jdk.

That's it this should install your jdk!

2)In case if you want to remove the installed jdk then key in this command in your terminal

$ sudo apt-get remove openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre

That's it this should uninstall your openjdk!

 

Installing Netbeans IDE:

To install the IDE first of all you need to download the latest IDE from Netbeans website.

After downloading key in the following command in your terminal

$ sudo bash filename 

My filename here was netbeans-7.2.1-ml-linux.sh and click enter and thats it! Your IDE should be installed through a netbeans wizard!

 

Installing XAMPP server:

To install xampp you need to be sure to have a tar.gz downloaded before and place them in Downloads folder and if so then use this following commands

$ cd Downloads  // go into the downloads folder

~/Downloads $ sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt

This should extract the lampp folders into the /opt folder. you can choose your own folder to extract as well.

Now start your xampp server using

$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Sometimes we need vim editor to make changes to the files. So we need to install it. Use,

$ sudo apt-get install vim

This will install the vim editor.

Now point your browser to http://localhost and click enter. You will see your XAMPP start up page. Choose your language and click on phpmyadmin on the left panel. You will get Access Forbidden Error Page. This is because we have not granted permissions to the user. To make changes open httpd-xampp.conf file from /opt/lampp/etc/extra/ path like below,

$ vim /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

If at all if you get permissions error then change permissions using the following command,

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

Now again run the previous command to make changes to your file and then search for the following 

<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin"> and add this line 

Require all granted

</Directory>

and save it. To save press esc key then :wq and then enter.

After this restart your server to do this use this command

$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

now refresh your page in the browser you will be displayed with the phpmyadmin page.

NOTE: One more important thing is that when people cannot create their project inside htdocs folder in Ubuntu. This is because the directory in which the project is created does not have permission to be created. So you need to use the following command

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/lampp/htdocs

Now you can create your project in htdocs folder!

That's it for today! hope you like this blog on configuring your lampp server on ubuntu 12.04!