Linux: PHP as a...
Run only PHP in Linux (Ubuntu / Zorin and whatever more...) Most of my websites don't use a database, therefore I do not need Apache or MySQL to edit them on localhost. Now I know, you can do that by installing Lamp (Xampp), but easier and quicker is it to just run PHP on it's own (provided that you already have downloaded and unpacked PHP to somewhere in your filesystem). If you do not yet have PHP installed, here's a quick how-to (1 = check if PHP exists and which version, 4 if no PHP installed, 5 = to check the version again and write the configuration to a file for easier upgrade, 6 = get the last version and 8 = remove old version): php -v sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade sudo apt install php dpkg -l | grep php | tee packages.txt sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt update sudo apt autoremove Now you have PHP installed and you can run it either through the terminal or make a bashfile and add a starter to it on the desktop for convenience. In contrary to what...