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Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

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Ubuntu

Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

I n this guide I will s how you how to ins tall a L A M P s ys tem. L A M P s tands for Linux, A pac he,

MySQ L , PH P . T he guide is intended to help thos e who have very little knowlegde of us ing

L inux.

Install Apache

T o s tart off we will ins tall A pac he.

1 . O pen up the T erminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

2 . C opy/P as te the following line of c ode into T erminal and then pres s enter:

sudo apt-get install apache2

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3 . T he T erminal will then as k you for you're pas s word, type it and then pres s enter.

Testing Apache

T o make s ure everything ins talled c orrec tly we will now tes t A pac he to ens ure it is working

properly.

1 . O pen up any web brows er and then enter the following into the web addres s :

http://localhost/

Y ou s hould s ee a folder entitled apache2-default/. O pen it and you will s ee a mes s age s aying

"I t works ! " , c ongrats to you!

Install PHP

I n this part we will ins tall P H P 5 .

Step 1 . A gain open up the T erminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

Step 2 . C opy/P as te the following line into T erminal and pres s enter:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Step 3 . I n order for P H P to work and be c ompatible with A pac he we mus t res tart it. T ype the

following c ode in T erminal to do this :

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test PHP

T o ens ure there are no is s ues with P H P let's give it a quic k tes t run.

Step 1 . I n the terminal c opy/pas te the following line:

sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

T his will open up a file c alled phptest.php.

Step 2 . C opy/P as te this line into the phptes t file:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Step 3 . Save and c los e the file.

Step 4 . N ow open you're web brows er and type the following into the web addres s :

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http://localhost/testphp.php

T he page s hould look like this :

T es t P H P P age

C ongrats you have now ins talled both A pac he and P H P !

Install MySQL

T o finis h this guide up we will ins tall M ySQ L . (N ote - O ut of A pac he and P H P , M ySQ L is the

mos t diffic ult to s et up. I will provide s ome great res ourc es for anyone having trouble at the

end of this guide.)

Step 1 . O nc e again open up the amazing T erminal and then c opy/pas te this line:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Step 2 (optional). I n order for other c omputers on your network to view the s erver you have

c reated, you mus t firs t edit the "Bind A ddres s ". Begin by opening up T erminal to edit the

my.cnf

file.

gksudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

C hange the line

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

A nd c hange the 127.0.0.1 to your I P addres s .

Step 3 . T his is where things may s tart to get tric ky. Begin by typing the following into

T erminal:

mysql -u root

Following that c opy/pas te this line:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('yourpassword');

(M ake s ure to c hange yourpassword to a pas s word of your c hoic e.)

Step 4 . We are now going to ins tall a program c alled phpM yA dmin whic h is an eas y tool to

edit your databas es . C opy/pas te the following line into T erminal:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin

A fter that is ins talled our next tas k is to get P H P to work with M ySQ L . T o do this we will

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need to open a file entitled php.ini. T o open it type the following:

gksudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

N ow we are going to have to unc omment the following line by taking out the s emic olon (;).

C hange this line:

;extension=mysql.so

T o look like this :

extension=mysql.so

N ow jus t res tart A pac he and you are all s et!

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The End

Q uic k note to anyone who enc ountered problems with s etting up the M ySQ L pas s word,

pleas e refer to this page:

M ys qlP as s wordRes et

I applaud everyone who has taken the time to read this guide. T his guide is als o my firs t

ever s o I would love to hear bac k from the public on what you guys think! J us t don't be too

hars h. ;)

I f you have ques tions about ins talling any part of L A M P jus t drop them in the c omment box

and I will do my bes t to help you out.

C opyright © 2 0 0 7 C argos hip

A ll Rights Res erved.

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Great tutorial

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Sat, 2008-10-25 15:07.

Everything worked perfectly fist time, thank you very much for a great tutorial.

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Wonderful article. It helped

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Sun, 2008-10-12 17:26.

Wonderful article. It helped me a lot! Thank you.

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Minor problems

Submitted by Lagavulin (not registered) on Sun, 2008-10-12 16:08.

Thanks a lot, this was really helpful. However, I encountered some problems on Ubuntu 7.04 which may be

related to previous Apache installations, configurations and deinstallations.

1. Apache complained: "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1

for ServerName"

Solution: Add a directive "ServerName myserver" to apache2.conf and add "127.0.1.1 myserver" to /etc/hosts.

2. http://localhost did not work.

Solution: Apache is listening on port 8081. See ports.conf.

3. Apache did not execute the php testscript but simply served the file.

Solution: I had to activate the php module manually by creating a symbolic link:

$ cd /etc/apache2

$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/php5.load mods-enabled/php5.load

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It failes to Restarting web server apache2

Submitted by ZP (not registered) on Sun, 2008-09-21 09:17.

Thanks for the wonderful guide.

I also didn't need to edit php.ini for it was already edited but I couldn't restarting web server apache2.

it says: Unable to resolve host ... and fails !

I'm totally a newbie and I'd appreciate it if you tell me if there is anything wrong.

Thanks in advance

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Thank you for this

Submitted by HÃ©lio Ã

vora (not registered) on Sat, 2008-09-20 13:21.

Thank you for this tutorial.

It's very good and it's help me to solve all my problems...

Hélio Évora

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First: Excellent work

Submitted by

Zmetser

(registered user) on Thu, 2008-05-22 11:10.

First: Excellent work dude!

Second: I had to copy phpmyadmin into my document root directory to work http://localhost/phpmyadmin, with

this command in shell:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin

# /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ is the directory where phpmyadmin installed

# /var/www/ is your document root directory

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Starting mysql

Submitted by

mcmarwa

(registered user) on Sun, 2008-03-02 13:30.

Thanks! This worked very well, with one minor glitch for my particular case. After installing mysql, I needed to

start mysql with:

sudo /etc/init.d mysql start

Then everything else worked.

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Thanks very much for the

Submitted by

srodden

(registered user) on Sat, 2007-10-06 11:00.

Thanks very much for the howto. i installed on Oct 5 and the php.ini you refered to near the end has no

;extension=mysql.so line to uncomment. Not able to log in using the root and password set earlier but i haven't

spent any time troubleshooting yet.

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adding desktop GUI

Submitted by

zaphu

(registered user) on Mon, 2007-08-20 04:43.

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one can also add the desktop GUI to the server installation by following this guide on

zaphu.com

Enjoy your new

LAMP server!

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I had problems

Submitted by

aromaman

(registered user) on Sun, 2007-08-19 20:52.

Hi cargoship. I had problems, I'm afraid, and did not manage to get lamp operational. I've posted my questions

on the forum, as requested by the admin. I'm new to Linux so I suspect I'm the problem, not your procedure.

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command missing after mysql password set

Submitted by

majikins

(registered user) on Tue, 2007-08-07 06:49.

Hi Great howto - thanks! A newbie would not know to type 'exit' after step 3(MySQL section)to get to step 4.

Cheers

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Thanks for the How-To

Submitted by

douglaslopezt

(registered user) on Sat, 2007-07-28 01:45.

Excelent How-to, very usefull, very simple and efficent. Thanks a lot.

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Great How-TO!!!!

Submitted by

DJ_Maiko

(registered user) on Wed, 2007-07-18 23:09.

First off, thanks a ton for the awesome how-to. My only question is:

Do I have to be connected to the internet to get all of this started? I ask because I plan to set this up on a

separate machine & I haven't picked up a router/nat yet. So I just want to make sure if I need that in place for

everything to work properly w/out having to re-do it again if I start w/out internet connectivity.

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Nope you do not need an

Submitted by

Cargoship

(registered user) on Thu, 2007-07-19 09:44.

@DJ_Maiko - Nope you do not need an internet connection to get LAMP to work.

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Thanks for the comments

Submitted by

Cargoship

(registered user) on Wed, 2007-07-18 14:29.

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Thanks for the comments everyone.

@ IronHide - Now just do whatever you want with your brand new installation!

@locutus_of_borg - I re-installed LAMP and it still seems to be in php.ini, but you are right it is also in mysql.ini. I

am not sure it if makes a difference though.

@mihai331 - I think I might edit the guide to explain more the purpose of what people are doing. Like what they

are downloading, and why they would edit this and that. Also maybe a few pictures for extra clarification.

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now what

Submitted by

IronHide

(registered user) on Tue, 2007-07-17 17:54.

Great article! Easy to follow. Now what?

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Surely even easier?

Submitted by

ferret99

(registered user) on Tue, 2007-07-17 10:51.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin

Worked for me.

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great guide

Submitted by

locutus_of_borg

(registered user) on Tue, 2007-07-17 10:47.

i followed your guide with my new installation of ubuntu server 7.04 (feisty) and everything worked exactly as

you said.

one small correction in the part where you edit: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

it seems, they moved "extension=mysql.so" to /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mysql.ini so we dont really need to

bother editing php.ini after all.

thanks for the guide, saved me the trouble of figuring out the correct sequence of packages to install

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Just went through and it

Submitted by

mihai331

(registered user) on Mon, 2007-07-16 01:32.

Just went through and it worked wonderful.

As a small advice. Maybe you should explain why some things are changed and maybe what other options one

has depending on the purpose.

Great tutorial!

Thanks! :)

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I am running the 64bit

Submitted by

srodden

(registered user) on Sat, 2007-10-06 11:21.

I am running the 64bit version of Ubuntu 7.04 and I found that I could not log in with phpMyAdmin. It refused

me with an error #1035. A little googling reveals that loading the mcrypt package fixes it.

sudo apt-get install php4-mcrypt

Now I'm in and running fine!

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