Hosting – Ubuntu

Install XAMPP

Change phpmyadmin root password

• Access PHPMyadmin control panel page
• Select “User Accounts” tab
• Select “Edit Privileges” at root user row
• Select “Change password” tab

When re-access PHPMyadmin page, permission denied page is shown
• Open “/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php” file
• Change
  [php]$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘config’;
  $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘user’] = ”;
  $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ”;
  [/php]
  into
  [php]$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘cookie’;
  $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘user’] = ‘your user name’;
  $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ‘your password’;
  [/php]
• Or, change
  [php]$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘config’;[/php]
  into
  [php]$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘HTTP’;[/php]
• Or, just provide your root password you have set here
  [php]$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ‘your password’;[/php]

Change port

• Open “/opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf” and change like this
  [sql]Listen 8080[/sql]
• Find “ServerName” and change “ServerName localhost:80” to
  [sql]ServerName 192.168.1.27:8080[/sql]

Install WordPress

Create WordPress database

• Access PHPMyAdmin
• Create your WordPress DB

First configuration

• Access “192.168.1.27:8080/your_wordpress/”
• Provide the following information
  [sql]
  Database Name: Your WordPress database
  User Name: Your MySQL user name
  Password: Your MySQL password
  Databse Host: 192.168.1.27
  [/sql]

Error

Error 403. You don’t have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index

[html]sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/lampp/htdocs[/html]