Installing LAMP on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

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Why Install LAMP?

Today I’m going to show how to install and set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on Ubuntu. Why do this? It’s useful if you want to set up an off-line web development environment. If you are building websites and experimenting, it’s nice to do it in the privacy of your own computer, rather than “in the wild” out on the internet.

Install LAMP

Ubuntu has an easy way to select and install all of the required packages. It’s done with the following command.

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Don’t forget to include the carrot. According to the Ubuntu documentation, it’s magical.

Hit <Enter> to confirm you want to install the packages.

apt-get install lamp-server

Next, you will be prompted to change the password for the root user on your MySQL database.

Change root Password in MySQL

Enter your chosen password. Enter it again in the confirmation screen.

After some more chugging in the terminal the installation will complete.

LAMP Installation Complete

Now we need to test the installation and get things configured.

Testing Apache

Open a web browser and enter the address http://localhost/. You should see a webpage displaying the text “It Works!”

Testing Apache – It Works!

Testing PHP

Now we’re going to test our PHP installation. To do this we’ll create a file called testing.php in /var/www. Open a terminal and enter:

gksudo gedit /var/www/testing.php

Enter the line below, save the file, and exit the text editor.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Now we need to restart Apache.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now, open your browser and enter http://localhost/testing.php/. You should see a bunch of information about your version of PHP.

Testing PHP Installation

Configuring MySQL

Now we need to configure MySQL to be associated with the IP address of your machine. Since I’m installing the LAMP stack for a web development environment I’m going to bind MySQL to the localhost IP address, which in my case is 127.0.0.1. You can verify this address with:

cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost

Edit the my.cnf file to configure the bind address.

gksudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Verify that the bind-address line looks like this (adjust for your IP address).

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

Install phpMyAdmin

This step is optional, but phpMyAdmin will make it much easier to administer the MySQL databases.

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

During the installation you will be prompted to select your web server for automatic configuration. Use the space bar to mark apache2 and then hit <Enter>.

You will also be asked if you want to configure phpMyAdmin with a new database called dbconfig-common. Select Yes and hit <Enter>.

Configure phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common

Next you’ll be prompted for the password for MySQL’s administrator. Enter the MySQL root password that you created earlier in the installation. Hit <Tab> to select Ok and hit <Enter>.

Next you’ll be prompted to create an application password for phpMyAdmin to talk to MySQL. If you leave it blank, a random password will be generated for you.

After configuring the password, the installation should complete.

Testing phpMyAdmin

Enter http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ into your web browser. You should see a page that looks like this:

Testing phpMyAdmin Installation

You should be able to log in using the username root and the root password that you created earlier.

Logged In To phpMyAdmin

Your LAMP installation is now complete.

At this point you may want to do some additional Apache configuration.

54 thoughts on “Installing LAMP on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)”

Zishan rana October 24, 2012 at 8:20 AM

I`m facing that error

root@zishan-desktop:~# sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadminReading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dbconfig-common javascript-common libjs-mootools libmcrypt4 libt1-5 php5-gd
php5-mcrypt wwwconfig-common
Suggested packages:
libmcrypt-dev mcrypt postgresql-client apache apache-ssl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dbconfig-common javascript-common libapache2-mod-auth-mysql libjs-mootools
libmcrypt4 libt1-5 php5-gd php5-mcrypt phpmyadmin wwwconfig-common
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 186 not upgraded.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

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Noddy June 2, 2012 at 7:57 AM

Thanks for this, just tested it on Xubuntu 12.04 and everything works fine.

Used leafpad instead of gedit for the text editor. leafpad is the default text editor on Xubuntu.

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niyam bhushan August 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM

works like a charm! thanks. sweet and simple, eh!
– niyam

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Alfred Nutile July 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM

the only thing I would add is
ubuntu:~/Sites/projects$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
Run ‘/etc/init.d/apache2 restart’ to activate new configuration!

For clean URLS and drupal

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1. Alfred Nutile July 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM
  
  ooops and thanks for the post!
  
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alvin July 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM

I forgot the password in my phpmyadmin.. how can i retrieve it?

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Raj April 1, 2010 at 9:43 PM

Thank you very much.
I went to Synaptic package manager and completely removed Myth TV and all its associated components. It works! Look forward to your next tutorial. Thanks again!
Raj

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Raj April 1, 2010 at 1:51 PM

Hi

When I tried the first step, the browser automatically points to http://localhost/mythweb/
then gives the following error message

Error

Unable to connect to the master backend at 10.0.1.3:6543.
Is it running?

Everything else seem to run fine. Thanks heaps for the excellent tutorial series.
cheers
Raj

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1. Linerd Post authorApril 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM
  
  It looks like you have MythTV installed on your system. I’m not familiar with Myth, but it seems like you might need to make some minor adjustments.
  
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Al Mubarak March 26, 2010 at 10:07 AM

Hai.,

i had linux 9.04 Jaunty jackalope Os and now i developed my website designs in PHP platform. now i installed LAMP SERVER by the above instruciots. but whenever i pink my http://localhost in browser it displays like that below.,

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch Server at localhost Port 80

Anyone could known to rectify this issue.

Thanks in ADVANCE

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Derek March 3, 2010 at 1:11 PM

When I go through the configuration of the db for phpmyadmin, I get this error:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

An suggestions?

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1. Linerd Post authorMarch 3, 2010 at 3:15 PM
  
  That one’s got me stumped. I haven’t seen that one before. If you can’t figure it out, you might want to try uninstalling LAMP and start over from scratch.
  
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anshu February 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM

superb tutorial!!!

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Live January 24, 2010 at 4:17 AM

OK, now that I’ve installed it. How do I uninstall or remove this lamp-server? It seems everyone is talking about installing it, but I’m not comfortable if I don’t know what it installed in my system, I think there are 10-20 packages, how do I remove all of them? Is there a command, a GUI, how do you do it?

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ameen January 7, 2010 at 2:07 AM

it really nice .. i search on many sites but this page provide my need.. thamku!

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Keller November 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Thank you ever so much. My Comp Engineering teacher wanted a LAMP up and running and this was so easy I had it done in an hour including installing Ubuntu. I can’t thank you enough.

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Erik Vandamme November 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM

Thanks Linerd. Problem solved used
sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

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Erik Vandamme November 11, 2009 at 4:38 PM

Great article, but none of the steps asked for a password and now
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
I get the following message after http://localhost/phpmyadmin
#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

or when i do different tests
#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

where can I find what is in Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.

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Benjamin Russell November 11, 2009 at 1:08 PM

Those of you who are finding that PhpMyAdmin will not run directly after installation are skipping over a key line in this tutorial:

“Use the space bar to mark apache2 and then hit .”

You must hit the space bar to mark the “apache2” option with a little asterisk before hitting .

Admittedly, it’s kind of a confusing interface.

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1. Linerd Post authorNovember 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM
  
  Benjamin – Thanks for the tip.
  
  Everyone – If you forgot to mark apache2 during the phpMyAdmin configuration, you can re-run this step with the command
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
  
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libripens October 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM

I also ran into the problem of my browser not finding http://localhost/phpmyadmin .

I solved the problem by typing this in Terminal:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www

I tried it, and it worked.
This solution was written by TitanKing in the comments section of this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1036836

Great guide! Thank you. I’m going to tweet it!

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bhuvana October 8, 2009 at 6:09 AM

sir,

i m getting err like
E: could not get lock/var/lib/dpkg/lock -open(11 resource temporarily unavailable)
E: unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

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1. Linerd Post authorOctober 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM
  
  Bhuvana, it sounds like a package manager was already running when you tried to do the install. Was the update manager running at the time? The install may work if you just try it again.
  
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Rick Wilson October 3, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Thanks, this was the easiest nethod I have come across. Thanks for shareing this with us. I can remember this taking me hours about a year ago. Good job!

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Abhinand September 19, 2009 at 11:19 AM

I found a work-around for the 404 ERROR from the ubuntuforums.
Thanks.

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1. Linerd Post authorSeptember 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM
  
  Abhinand – What was your solution?
  
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Abhinand September 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Help!

After installing phpmyadmin, I’m getting a 404 ERROR when I open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ . It is saying that phpmyadmin was not found on this server.

The remaining LAMP installation was successful.

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Sooraj September 18, 2009 at 4:23 AM

thanks for the easy tutorial.

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latulipe September 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM

a very good tutorial… until i tried to access phpMyAdmin. There was a problem with te ,my.cnf’ file. i did as written the gksudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf manip.
can i delete MySql without touching PHP and Apache because they are still ok.
thanks

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1. Linerd Post authorSeptember 11, 2009 at 5:24 AM
  
  latulipe – The easiest way may be to open Synaptic and search on the installed Mysql packages. Mark them for complete removal (this is supposed to get rid of all settings/preferences files as well) and then go ahead and reinstall those same packages.
  
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Yoav Givon September 7, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Perfect , clean installation , no one single problem . Thanks a million

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Mike M. August 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM

NICE! This is hands down the easiest to follow LAMP install that I have found, great job.

BTW – I, too, had to add the lines:

#for phpmyadmin
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

at the end of my apache2.conf file. and the RESTART apache and I was good to go!

Thanks again..

Mike

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tom smith August 5, 2009 at 12:30 AM

By far the best thought through set of instructions I have found to date. Thank you!

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1. Linerd Post authorAugust 7, 2009 at 12:06 AM
  
  Tom – Glad you liked it.
  
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Zulfir Sadat July 22, 2009 at 5:05 AM

Wonderful Tutorial
Great contribution. Thanks a mollion

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ryan July 18, 2009 at 8:59 PM

excellent tutorial.
exactly what i wanted to do and it doesn’t get any easier

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Yves July 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM

Nice tutorial, worked like a charm.
Thank you!

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Sathish July 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM

Simple but great tutrorial

THanks a lot !!!

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localhost July 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM

shot dude! nice post, seamless and easy install thanks to you!

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john July 4, 2009 at 1:03 AM

Thanks a bunch I went through several tutorials and none worked untill this one. The only thing missing is you didn’t tell them to restart apache before checking php..

Thank
John

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Darksoul June 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM

Emm… at Install phpMyAdmin.. I type

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

but I suddenly choose apache…how to fix it..i want to choose apache2…help me..I’m newbis

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1. Linerd Post authorJune 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM
  
  @Darksoul – Do you mean you selected the wrong thing during installation of phpmyadmin? Yo can re-run the configuration with:
  
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
  
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Lipu June 17, 2009 at 11:18 PM

I have to add this line too.

#for phpmyadmin
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

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Aumi June 17, 2009 at 6:45 PM

hi, nice tutorial… i’ve installed it successfully…. thanks a lot

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Rexedead June 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Thanks!

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Rolando Rodriguez from panama city June 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM

thank brother is a good tuto.

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Frans van Leeuwen June 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Good information. However, al my browsers don’t accept a php-file for output. The all ask the question what I want tot do with such a file.

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1. Linerd Post authorJune 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM
  
  Frans – Did you remember to restart Apache?
  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  
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BR June 11, 2009 at 10:05 PM

Try using the MYSQL password you created in the early part of the process, rather than the PHPMyAdmin password you just created..that worked for me..

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Michael June 11, 2009 at 7:30 AM

Thanks so much for sharing this easy LAMP install, I just followed your step by step instructions to install LAMP, but when I installed and tried to login phpMyAdmin, I got an error message: Access denies, I did not enter password for MySQL (blank) but I did enter the password for phpMyAdmin, and to login phpMyAdmin, I used root as you said, and the password I created, what have I done wrong?

Thanks,
Michael

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Sayantan Das June 7, 2009 at 7:34 AM

thanks a lot. this is the easiest ,shortest, and quickest way to install LAMp….
no hassles. thanks again.

just a small thing… i think, for phpmyadmin to start on the browser, u have to add this line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

#for phpmyadmin
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

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1. Linerd Post authorJune 7, 2009 at 8:39 AM
  
  Sayantan – Thanks for the comment. I didn’t have to make any changes to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. In fact, I just went and checked that file and there is no phpmyadmin line in there. Perhaps your setup is different from mine. I imagine other Linux distros handle things a bit differently.
  
  I went through all of this just yesterday on a fresh install of Jaunty, using the latest packages. I haven’t tried this yet on my Hardy install. You’re edit may come in handy there.
  
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