Once you have installed XAMPP on Ubuntu, these are the usual commands used when everything is up and running.
To start XAMPP run the following and the command will return a list of running services:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
To stop XAMPP run the command below and it will return a list of the stopped services.
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
To restart XAMPP run the command below and it will stop and restart the running services.
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart
You can also stop/start/restart individual services by appending “apache”, “mysql” or “ftp” to the end.
start – Start XAMPP (Apache, MySQL and eventually others)
startapache – Start only Apache
startmysql – Start only MySQL
startftp – Start only ProFTPD
stop – Stop XAMPP (Apache, MySQL and eventually others)
stopapache – Stop only Apache
stopmysql – Stop only MySQL
stopftp – Stop only ProFTPD
reload – Reload XAMPP (Apache, MySQL and eventually others)
reloadapache – Reload only Apache
reloadmysql – Reload only MySQL
reloadftp – Reload only ProFTPD
restart – Stop and start XAMPP
security – Check XAMPP’s security
enablessl – Enable SSL support for Apache
disablessl – Disable SSL support for Apache
backup – Make backup file of your XAMPP config, log and data files
oci8 – Enable the oci8 extenssion
panel – Starts graphical XAMPP control panel