“”Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.“”

Quoted from Apache Friends. Home of the Xampp project.

It took me some time to find the information I need to get Xampp to start when the computer boots up. Apache Friends has a small How To to get the process going everytime, but it failed to work for me. So Borntwisted and myself had a natter about it and decided to add the Xampp start command into the startup programs and voila, it works a treat.

If the Apache Friends info does not work for you, and you are using Ubuntu Dapper then follow these simple instructions.

• System
• Preferences
• Sessions
• Startup Programs (tab)
• Add

Enter the following command:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

When your computer reboots you should now have Xampp start as a process.