under ‘Databases’ – ‘add user’ you can add the default xampp user pma as user of this new database, so WordPress doesn’t have to have root access.log in as root on phpMyAdmin and create a database for WordPress, for example wp_dbase.create a symbolic link in htdocs: sudo ln -s ~/wordpress wordpress.install (extract) WordPress locally, for example in ~/wordpress.give this new user access to the xampp files in /opt/lampp with sudo chown -R simon htdocs and in /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin with sudo chown simon (use your own username here).just to make sure you can create a whoami.php file in htdocs with to check whether Apache is using your username now.change Apache user ‘nobody’ in /opt/lampp/etc/nf by replacing it with your own username (in my case ‘simon’).

create passwords for the default users ( sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security).start xampp ( sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start).install xampp with sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt.My solution is to change the Apache username to my own username, so WordPress has the same access to the local files as myself. A solution I found on the internet is to open all local files (with chmod 777), but somehow that doesn’t sound too secure for me. From within WordPress the server doesn’t have access to the local folder. The next problem is to get the automatic installation of WordPress plugins and themes working. One solution is to move the Apache root directory, but it’s more convenient to put a symbolic link in the xampp root directory to the local WordPress install. When I’m working on the source files I don’t like to mess around in /opt with root access. The xampp root directory is /opt/xampp/htdocs/ but in order to easily work on the WordPress files and themes I’d like to install it in my own home directory. However, to get WordPress working is a little bit more complicated. What I like about xampp is that you just have to unpack the files in /opt and everything works instantly. Xampp is a complete package with an Apache server, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

So here’s my problem and solution.įor the webserver I’m using xampp voor linux. A search on the internet gave a couple of solutions of which some didn’t work and others seemed to insecure for me. Unfortunately it’s not that straightforward to get things running. Working on a website or theme is easier to do locally.

Installing xampp on linux