XAMPP VM and text editors

Question

I recently installed XAMPP for OS X (XAMPP VM PHP 7.2.1) which now virtualizes the entire box for obvious benefits of higher security. Although I admire the new concept and see its benefits, I cannot put my head around one thing that puzzles me.

I would like to enable the PHPMyAdmin tool, which requires me to change a file, based on this well described set of instructions:

http://localhost:8080/dashboard/docs/access-phpmyadmin-remotely.html

This document basically describes the steps needed to relax the security concept that prevents directly accessing the PHPMyAdmin login. It asks you to edit the /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf file in order to allow access to PHPMyAdmin. One can get to the file system via the stack manager. In this file, the following block:

<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
  AllowOverride AuthConfig
  Require local
  ...

needs to be changed into:

<Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
  AllowOverride AuthConfig
  Require all granted
  ...

Strangely, and I am extremely puzzled by it and cannot actually believe it, I seem to not be able to find neither pico, vi, vim, or nano (all very standard editors in any Linux distribution) on this virtual machine. Since I am on the VM, I have no access to tools on my own machine (i.e. everything in /Applications).

Did I overlook something? What is going on?

Answer 1

As the documentation suggests, you need to locate and edit the file: /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

The hard part for me was locating this file. The solution I found was to ensure the stack volume was mounted:

From there, you can click the explore button, which will open /opt/lampp/. You can then navigate to etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf from the Finder window that is opened and edit with any editor you want.

Alternatively, once the drive is mounted, you should be able to access the volume through Finder:

Hopefully, this helps.

Answer 2

You should open xampp control panel click "open terminal" in the "general" tab, then do the following steps :

1. apt update
2. apt install vim
3. vim /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf
4. change Require local to Require all granted
5. restart apache in service tab
6. open phpmyadmin

Answer 3

I 'solved' the issue by returning back to the non-VM version of XAMPP but then had to leave this solution altogether for other reasons (I was not able to scale from XAMPP). So, I used HomeBrew (yes, I am a Mac User) to install Apache, PHP (actaully 3 different version for different purposes), PHPMyAdmin, MariaDB and MongoDB manually and hand-configure it.

I realised that these pre-build stacks are good and useful if you do not want to dive in and change them (or bend them). I will, in the future spend a bit more time an do it that way.

Thanks for all the feedback and attention.

Answer 4

You can edit the file directly from the host:

• Start XAMPP (VM version)

• Mount the data volume:

  

• Open Terminal on your host (Not the terminal accessible from XAMPP) and enter:

  sudo nano ~/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf
  

• change:

  <Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Require local
    ...
  

  to:

  <Directory "/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Require all granted
    ...
  

  and save the changes!

• Start Apache and MySQL

• Open a browser on the host and enter:

  http://<IP-VM>/phpmyadmin/
  

  The default IP-VM appears to be 192.168.64.2.

Answer 5

try this, it just worked for me with xampp vm on os x

apt-get install vim

Answer 6

Try to update apt-get by using

apt-get update

After that you can try to install

apt-get install vim