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Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Why install LAMP on your desktop computer?
Why would I want to install and set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) stack on Ubuntu 9.10? It’s useful if you want to set up a private web development environment. Perhaps you want to develop your own WordPress theme. If you are developing websites and experimenting, it’s nice to do it in the privacy of your own computer, rather than out on the public internet.
Install LAMP
The Ubuntu developers have created a very easy way to install a LAMP server on an existing system. It's all kicked off with this one simple terminal command.
Note: Please make note of the caret (^) in the above command, it's not a typo, it's required to make the command work.
Install LAMP with apt-get
The apt package manager will show all the packages that need to be installed. Hit <Enter> to confirm that you want to install them.
You will then be prompted to change the password for the root user on the MySQL database.
Setting root password for MySQL
Enter the password you want. You'll be prompted to enter it a second time to confirm.
After you confirm your password, apt will continue to install the rest of the packages.
Lamp installation is complete
Congratulations, your LAMP installation is complete! That was the easy part, now you need to get things configured to make the system easy to work with.
Test Apache
Open a web browser and enter the address http://localhost/. You should see a web page that says "It Works!"
Apache works!
Testing php
Now that you know Apache works, it's time to test the php installation. You'll need to create a file in /var/www called testing.php. Open a terminal and enter:
Enter the following line into the text editor, save the file and exit.
Creating testing.php
Next, restart Apache with the following terminal command.
Now go back to your web browser and enter the address http://localhost/testing.php/. You should see a page displaying version information for your php installation.
Testing php - it works!
Configuring MySQL
Since I'm installing LAMP for a web development environment, I want to bind the MySQL database to the localhost IP address. This should be 127.0.0.1 for your system. You can verify it with this terminal command.
You'll now want to verify that the correct bind address is set up in the my.cnf file.
You should see a line that looks like
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
If the IP address doesn't match the one for your system, you'll need to edit the my.cnf file to correct it.
Install phpMyAdmin
You don't need to install phpMyAdmin, but it's a much easier way to get in and muck around with things in your MySQL database if you're not familiar with the MySQL commands. You can install phpMyAdmin from the command line with
The installation will prompt you to select a web server for automatic configuration. Use the space bar on your keyboard to select apache2 and then hit <Enter>.
Configure phpMyAdmin for Apache2
Another screen will come up asking if you want to configure a new database called dbconfig-common. Since this is a fresh installation, use the <Tab> key to select Yes and hit <Enter>.
Configure dbconfig-common
You'll be prompted next to enter the MySQL root password. Enter the MySQL root password that you created earlier, hit <Tab> to select Ok and hit <Enter>.
Enter MySQL root password
You'll then be prompted to enter a MySQL application password for phpmyadmin. You can hit <Enter> and a random password will be generated. I chose to use the same password that I used for the root MySQL password. If you enter your own password, a password confirmation screen will come up. Confirm your password.
MySQL application password confirmation
The phpMyAdmin installation is now complete.
Testing phpMyAdmin
Open your web browser and enter the address http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. You should see a page like this.
Testing phpMyAdmin
You can log in with the username root and the root password that you created earlier.
phpMyAdmin home screen
Congratulations, you're now ready to start building your local website. If you're only working on one site you can put all of the files into /var/www. If you'll be working on multiple sites you may want to consider some additional Apache configuration to keep things neat and clean on you system.
I've seen that using this line gksudo gedit /var/www/testing.php i can creat/access a file from www folder. But how can I delete one? Or how can i get to this folder. I mean in windows it is easy: you click 2-3 times and you are in the www folder of easyphp ans you can do whatever you want there. but in ubuntu it is different.
You can remove a file from the /var/www folder with this command:
You can also add and remove files using the file manager, but you'll need proper permissions for that. The /var/www folder is set up to be writable by the www-data group. To add your userID to that group, use:
You might have to log out and log back in to make the group change take effect. You should then be able to manage the files in that folder from the file manager.
Where do I get my id from?
It's the same that you use to log into the system. Your terminal prompt is probably something like yourid@hostname. You can also find out you ID with the following terminal command:
I did it. I added my user to that group. After that, I restarted my PC and when I accesed first time the root folder it let me to get in. So I went to www folder and I tried to delete a few files to create my own website after and it didn't let me to do it. I went out of the File Browser and when i tried to access root folder again it told me that i do not have permissions to open it.
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If after you install you get a 404 not found error do this;
First type the following command to open up this file:
Add the following line of code inside apache2.conf:
Now restart Apache:
Point your browser to: http://domain/phpmyadmin, you should be able to see the phpMyAdmin landing page now!
This should have been configured during installation. If you are getting the 404 error on phpMyAdmin you should run
use the space bar to mark the box next to Apache and then hit <Enter> to complete the configuration.
Then run
You should be able to use phpMyAdmin now.
Can you post how to get Wordpress and Joomla up and running on this ?
I'd appreciate it very much.
Found the wordpress one, just had to go hunting
Felicidades, grande por su aporte
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