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I have a problem with my xampp that's installed on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

After successfully installing my xampp server, I do get access to the lampp server which further indicates that the mysql database is running.

But when I click the xampp status, it's indicated the mysql database is deactivated. Also my phpmyadmin show this error:The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).

This has been the problem with me for the past 72 hours and I am still struggling with how to make it activated?

Can anyone help me with this?

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  • How did you install server? Did you customize anything after setup? Provide more information about your installation process.
    – Nabil
    Feb 15, 2014 at 6:01
  • Waw thanks for your input, now phpmyadmin is responding fine. It seems I have another constrain; I normally lunch my apache2 through this command:"/opt/lampp/lampp start" just of recent, I can't see the directive any more. the directive "/lampp" is no where to be seen? Also I search all roots but I can't see folder lampp on my ubuntu 12.04 laptop. If i try to reinstall the xampp it pups me the features are running fine but I can't able to lunch any of it. Any ideas appreciate.
    – sedat
    Mar 9, 2014 at 22:18

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Try to start mysql server through command line.

sudo service mysql start

or 

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
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  • I meet the same problem. I already tried the above two solutions.The terminal shows me "start: Job is already running: mysql" but when I check the status of MySQL in "localhost/xampp/index.php", it is still deactivated. How to fix it?
    – Casper
    Dec 28, 2014 at 12:56
  • use command "kill" to stop the server process that working in background and try the above command again
    – JOGOOL
    Jan 7, 2015 at 20:47
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Mysql was not activated. The following commands helped me fix it. Stop xampp using the command

/opt/lampp/lampp stop

Restart it with 

/opt/lampp/lampp start
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the most probable culprit is the default mysql instance

  • stop the running mysql instance
    • sudo service mysql stop

    using cli

  • (re)start the lampp service
    • sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start or sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

  • (re)start mysql instance only again

    • sudo /opt/lampp/lampp startmysql or reload as follows sudo /opt/lampp/lampp reloadmysql

    using gui
    click start

    ...for the posterity...

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