![]() ![]() Now your laucher for XAMPP will be on the desktop and save you a few clicks and keypresses when you need to start it up. Enter “ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start” into the Command field.Įnter the XAMPP startup command to create a launcher for it.Enter “Start XAMPP” for the Name (or enter whatever you want to call your shortcut).Select “Application in Terminal” for the Type.Hit the Node.js website and click the big green Install button. Right-click on the Ubuntu desktop and select “Create Launcher.” It is assumed that you have already installed xampp Download windows installer of Node.js from its site click on download. installation of Ubuntu Apache: from the terminal run sudo apt-get install apache2 or sudo apt install apache2 if you installed Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.If you want to create a similar launcher, follow these steps: This way I can start it with just a double-click of the mouse instead of launching the terminal and typing in the command. a shortcut for us Windows folks) on the Ubuntu desktop for the Terminal command to start XAMPP. To get around this, I created a simple launcher (i.e. XAMPP needs to be manually restarted the next time I use the VM, which can be a little tedious after a while. Running VirtualBox takes up a significant amount of RAM, so I like to shut it down when I’m not using it. ![]() Over time I’ve developed a few simple tips that make my workflow a little more efficient, so I wanted to share them with anyone else who read my previous tutorial on setting up a VM as a WordPress development environment. I do most of my WordPress development using a combination of VirtualBox and Ubuntu. This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series WordPress Development Environment.
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