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.
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.
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.
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Excellent straight forward tutorial. Now I just need to figure out how to create my website from an existing copy. Tried it with a previous installation and couldn't access any of the folders on the website.
Many thanks. Thanks to you I'm up and running
Thanks ,
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After fretting 24 hours over having installed LAMP from Ubuntu's Synaptic PM "by task" selection and installing PhPMyAdmin separately only to find out later that my PMA p/w didn't work and that I couldn't uninstall LAMP "by task" from Synaptic ('cause you can't untick the LAMP checkbox in Synaptic), I came across your page here. To make a long story short, I finally got it all straightened out. Thanks Linerd (luv it)--you rock!
Hi I have recently installed ubuntu and wanted to have local host server, I have installed success fully but when i am at this stage for Testing phpMyAdmin, it is displaying "Not Found
The requested URL /phpmyadmin/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80"
I am not sure every thing was succesful but displaying errors any help please
The directions in this comment should help: http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/04/installing-lamp-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/comment-page-1/#comment-2952
Hi...
I'm a raw recruit in using Ubuntu ... but this guidance was very helpful.
It's written for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, but it also works for Ubuntu 10.10 maverick.
Thanks a lot!
Kind regards Matse
Excellent tutorial
Straight forward and great tutorial
Thanks Sir....Really such a great guideline or totally straight forward. I successfully configure lamp server as well as phpmyadmin into my System and i m successfully able to do php task with this.
Thank you very much.
Have a nice day!
Terrific way to get it all happening. Thank you.
Thanks for this post. http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. doesn't get me the right page in the web browser. I think something is missing in my configuration. Is there a way to debug?
Are you getting a 404 error? Here's the fix for that: http://tuxtweaks.com/2012/05/fixing-common-problems-with-lamp-on-ubuntu/
Does http://localhost/ take you to the right page showing "It works!"? If not, something might be wrong in your /etc/hosts file.