Hello all,
I’m trying to get back into some basic web development, which will mostly include altering platforms with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP/SQL (I’ll probably move on to other languages when I have those down). I’ve always developed in the past on Windows, and have been rather spoiled with WAMP. However, my goal is to start using Linux more, so I have setup Mate (shoutout to the Ubuntu podcast which brought me to this distro) in a virtualbox machine.
My usual routine is to develop in Notepad ++ or Dreamweaver, and run stuff on the local machine until I’m ready to transfer everything via FTP onto a server. On the Linux side of things, I have installed filezilla, atom, and XAMPP. I would appreciate any feedback on this setup, or my workflow in general.
Unfortunately, I’m having a problem with XAMPP. I’ve created my databases and users in PHPmyadmin, but every time I try to install a cms/cart, the installation program can’t connect to the database. Opencart, Oscommerce, Abantecart, they’re all failing to connect to the database. Aside from changing file/folder permissions in htdocs, I haven’t altered anything in XAMPP from the stock install. How do I fix this?
Thanks in advance!
Andrew