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Complete noob with ubuntu and linux here, so excuse the "noobity". I'm using Ubuntu desktop 16.04 LTS.

Installed XAMPP yesterday, viewed my site on it and all was good. After a restart, while trying to do some of the things I did yesterday -simple functions like editing files or copy and paste- I'm getting a "Error opening file 'filename': Permission denied" error.

EDIT: I'm also seeing lockpads on the opt/lampp directory's contents.

I searched before sending this question, but found nothing that I understood. Any help is highly appreciated.

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  • "Installed XAMPP yesterday" first mistake and all your other mistakes can be avoided due to that one ;-) We have a native "almost one click to get it working" installation of a LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/python/perl) with sudo apt install lamp-server^ (mind the carrot) that will have you end up with a localhost showing "It Works". – Rinzwind Aug 11 '17 at 9:42
  • But ... " -simple functions like editing files or copy and paste- I'm getting a "Error opening file 'filename': Permission denied" error." does not look like it should be related to your xampp installation?? – Rinzwind Aug 11 '17 at 9:46
  • Thanks Rinzwind. You noticed the "Complete Noob" part, right? ;) I installed using bitnami. Guess that's what you're talking about? Yes. It's possible it's an Ubuntu permissions thing. Only happened after the installation of Xampp AND only in the lampp directory – I.s. Aug 11 '17 at 9:50
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    Yeah saw that ;-) Can you copy the commands and errors you get into the question and also the results of ls -l (to limit the result you probably only need that for that file you get the errors from) – Rinzwind Aug 11 '17 at 10:21
  • I'm also seeing lockpads on the opt/lampp directory's contents. Results are 10000+ files for the root directory. ./opt/lampp# ls -l total 10416 – I.s. Aug 11 '17 at 11:57
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First 

cd /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

Give permission to config.inc.php

sudo chmod -R 777 config.inc.php

Edit config.inc.php file

gedit config.inc.php

Go to line or search for // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

Remove // from //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

Edit it with from Localhost to 127.0.0.1

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';

Now restart services

service mysql restart
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