SAMS Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP

[FreeCare]

Hi, I have the above book which states "Starter kit - CD ROM includes a complete starter kit for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X" with the phrase "easy to install".........NOT!

I appear to be lacking in the know how on do such and hope some one can help me.

First off I extracted the XAMPP package to my home folder and from there had no idea what to do with the files as there was no instruction.

After some thinking and looking I realised I should manually copy the files to /opt/<folder name>

Then from a terminal cd to the required folder and typed sudo ./lampp start and hey presto I get a load of messages talking about Ajax, MySQL etc and eventually all loaded

I then turn my attention to the jedit package on the CD and again extract to my home folder.

There are a lot more folders this time such as /usr/share .... etc.

So I copy all this folders and files to the matching path and update my KMenu which now displays a nice JEdit entry.

I clck this new icon and I get a message sayin JEdit is loading but after a while it dissappears and nothing happens.

So I run it from a terminal and I get an error about JAVS not being in my path and failed to find java virtual machine bailing!

What?

So more research and I look in Adept Manager for this but cannot find an entry that has a description of java virtual machine.

Can any one advise how I go about this as well as maybe explain how the creators of the Starter Kit can say this it an "easy install" ?

Thanks

[gnowak]

Re: SAMS Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP

Hey, I don't have your book, but it can be a paaiiiin to work with it, when you don't have an idea where to start...

There should be an install.txt or readme.txt with an XAMPP installation. Have you looked into this guide?

You could also look into how aptitude works.. and install the packages with full control..

I hope this can get you started. Remember.. google is your friend.. sometimes

Try searching the forums for topics similar to your problem. XAMPP (X (meaning cross-platform) Apache MySQL PHP Perl) or LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)

[FreeCare]

Re: SAMS Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP

HI, yep I googled o plenty and found out lots so far....

So I now know what LAMP stands for and also that when I trype sudo ./lampp start it refers to Apache and not ajax! What a macaroon!

I also suspect that as LAMP includes the Apache web server I dont need the jedit bit!

So I guess I shall continue to read the book and see if it tells me how to interact with LAMP.

Coming from Windows I was expecting to see something like the SSMSE? Or similar to when using VB.Net and being able to see the instance of SQL Server?

Thanks