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I'm having trouble installing multiple versions of XAMPP on my machine. I am currently using version 1.7.7 and installed it in /opt/lampp, but I also need to install the previous version which is version 1.7.1. So I downloaded and installed version 1.7.1 in /opt/lampp2.

But when I run /opt/lampp2/lampp startcommand to start 1.7.1 version, why does XAMPP show that the version that is currently running is 1.7.7, when it should be 1.7.1?

The solution is have separate directories and create a sym link to /opt/lampp

Keep 1.7.7 as /opt/lampp.1_7_7 and 1.7.1 as /opt/lampp.1_7_1 you can create a sym link to /opt/lampp. Based on the version choice you can change the sym link.

But the pain is if you have to switch versions you have delete the link and recreate a new one. So to avoid this, I found a script that can do the job.

Refer to this article (dead link, web.archive.org backup) to create the sym link

Script can help you to:

• gives a choice of available versions of XAMPP (based on folder names
  containing them, based on the pattern shown above),


• stops the XAMPP
  server processes,


• deletes the existing lampp soft link,


• creates a new
  soft link pointing at the folder containing the the chosen version of
  XAMPP.

Source

Follow the idea to create a link, I try to make this works.
Remember that I am not a pro, I was looking for a solution and make this script to my self and share with you.

Just to future questions if you want to install 2 versions of xampp on Linux you have to install: Example:
xampp php5 on /opt/lampp then rename it to /opt/lampp5, then do the same with the php7 bin installer (or tar) and rename it to /opt/lampp7.
then copy this code into a new script.sh file, make it writable chmod +x script.sh, then run it $ ./script.sh or $ ./script.sh 5 start
here is the code example running fine on ubuntu 16.04, its just a simple script to make it work on this kind of problem, since on windows we can do it at the installation steps.

#!/bin/bash



LAMPP_VERSION=$1

LAMPP_ACTION=$2



LAMPP="/opt/lampp"

XAMPP=$LAMPP"/xampp"



function stopall {

    sudo $XAMPP stopapache

    sudo $XAMPP stopmysql

}



function startall {

    sudo $XAMPP startapache

    sudo $XAMPP startmysql

}



function stopmysql {

    sudo $XAMPP stopmysql

}



function stopapache {

    sudo $XAMPP stopapache

}



function startmysql {

    sudo $XAMPP startmysql

}



function startapache {

    sudo $XAMPP startapache

}



function checklampplink {



    # check if exist a link and delete it

    if [[ -L "$LAMPP" && -d "$LAMPP" ]]

        then

            echo "$LAMPP is a symlink to a directory: try DELETE!"

            sudo rm -f $LAMPP

        else

            echo "NO $LAMPP LINK WAS FOUND!"

    fi



    # create a new link

    echo "try to create LAMPP link ..."

    cd /opt

    ln -s "$LAMPP$LAMPP_VERSION" "lampp"



    ## check if is created

    if [[ -L "$LAMPP" && -d "$LAMPP" ]];

        then

            echo $LAMPP "created!"

        else

            echo "LINK not created! exit 1"

            exit 1

    fi

}



function checkservices {



    # check if services exists and try to stop property

    PIDS_MYSQL=$(ps -C mysqld -C mysqld_safe -o pid=)

    PIDS_APACHE=$(ps -C /opt/lampp/bin/ -o pid=)



    if [ -n $PIDS_MYSQL ];

        then

            stopmysql

        else

            echo "NO MYSQL TO KILL"

    fi

    if [ -n "$PIDS_APACHE" ];

        then

            stopapache

        else

            echo "NO APACHE TO KILL"

    fi



}



### begin ###







####

# get an action

if [ -z $LAMPP_ACTION ];

    then

        echo

        echo "ACTION: ( start | stop | restart)?"

        read LAMPP_ACTION

    else

        echo "ACTION SET TO: "$LAMPP_ACTION

fi

# if action is stop exit

if [ "$LAMPP_ACTION" == "stop" ];

    then

        stopall

        exit 0

fi



####

# get a version

if [ -z $LAMPP_VERSION ];

    then

        echo

        echo "VERSION: ( 5 | 7 )? "

        read LAMPP_VERSION

     else

        echo "VERSION SET TO: " $LAMPP_VERSION

fi

if [[ "$LAMPP_VERSION" = "5" || "$LAMPP_VERSION" = "7" ]];

    then

        echo "GOOD version continue ..."

    else

        echo "Wrong version exit 1"

        exit 1

fi



## if action is start or restart do the same

checkservices



# check folder link

checklampplink



echo



echo "Select an option to START:"

echo "1) ALL current installed services on xampp"

echo "2) Apache and Mysql - phpmyadmin"

echo

echo "Type enter to start option default ( 1 ) "

read USER_START

echo

echo "Starting services ..."

echo



if [ -z $USER_START ];

    then

        startapache

        startmysql

     else

        if [ "$USER_START" = "1" ];

            then

                startall

            else

                startapache

                startmysql

        fi

fi



echo "Done";

exit 0

if this code have any syntax problem, sorry I just paste here.
good luck!