XAMPP Startup Guide

Follow these steps to upgrade you XAMPP version to a newer version.   Rename your old XAMPP installation folder i.e. mv /opt/lampp /opt/lampp_old Install XAMPP Copy the files from your old htdocs folder to the new htdocs /opt/lampp/htdocs/ Give your user ownership of those files. This is necessary to be able to edit the files. chown user:user -R /opt/lampp/htdocs   Configure Virtual Hosts open /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf uncomment this line Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf   Copy your httpd-vhosts.conf file from your previous installation to the new location. /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf   Update your xampp password "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('password') WHERE User='root';"   Update your PHPMyAdmin password   Open the file [XAMPP Installation Path] / phpmyadmin / config.inc.phpin your favorite text editor. Search for the string or got to line 31. Look for $cfg\['Servers'\]\[$i\]['password'] = ''; Change it to like this,$cfg\['Servers'\]\[$i\]['password'] = 'password'; Here the ‘password’ is what we set using the SQL query.   Copy your databases from your old installation. -chown mysql:mysql -R /opt/lamp/var/mysq/   Re-enable any php extensions you may have activated in your previous installation. i.e. xdebug Add extensions in /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini zend_extension="xdebug.so" Easy way to verify is to use php_info(); or use PHPStorm Set your timetime in php.ini