How to install and Configure LAMP in Ubuntu ( Linux ) Manually ?

As I mentioned in Installation of  Xampp for windows , XAMPP package is also available for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions .So you can download that from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html .

To learn how to install LAMP using XAMPP package , Click Here . 

What I am going to explain here is , installation all the components of PHP,MySQL,Apache2 manually without installing it as a package .

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 Linux distribution . You can try the same steps in other distributions also and I hope it works , if any problem , kindly comment here . We will help you .

 Here is the step by step Manual :

Step 1 :

Install Apache Web Server

> goto your terminal 

> type the following command and hit enter

sudo apt-get install apache2

It may prompt for password , just provide it .

It will take few moments to download and install apache server in you machine .

Once it installed successfully , Just restart the apache server .

Type the following code in the terminal window and hit enter .

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

After the installation , open your browser , in the address bar type localhost and hit enter .

If it shows something like “It works” . Then it means apache web server is installed in your system .

Step 2 :

Now let us install the PHP .

Goto terminal and type the following command and hit enter .

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

It may prompt for confirmation , type Y and hit enter .

Now the installation will begin and goes for few minutes or seconds depends upon your INTERNET connection .

Once it installed successfully , Just restart the apache server .

Type the following code in the terminal window and hit enter .

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now we have to verify the installation .

To do that , open a text editor and type the following php code inside it and save it .

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Save it with .php extension , for example save it as verify.php . You have to save in the location ,  /var/www/verify.php .

To make the task simple , go to terminal and type the following command and hit enter .

gksu gedit /var/www/verify.php

It will open text editor now type  <?php phpinfo(); ?> and press CTRl + S to save it .

Open your browser now , go to address bar , type localhost/verify.php .

It should display a php information page , if so everything is perfect till now . Proceed to next step .

Step 3 :

Now you have to install mysql .

go to terminal , in this case , you have to install more than one tool . Run all the following 6 codes in the terminal window one by one and install all the 6 packages .

1. mysql-client
2. mysql-client-5.5
   
3. mysql-client-core-5.5
4. mysql-server
5. mysql-server-5.5
6. mysql-server-core-5.5

Sometimes mysql may not work properly ,so install all the 6 packages in your system .

During installation , mysql may ask for root password , so provide it and remember it for future use .

Once it installed successfully , Just restart the apache server .

Type the following code in the terminal window and hit enter .

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To check the installation of MySQL , goto terminal and type mysql -h localhost -u root -p

hit enter .

it will prompt for password , provide your mysql password , not your Ubuntu system login password !

now the terminal will show some mysql related information and its prompt looks like this

mysql>

it means MySQL installed properly and is ready to use .

you can check further by entering the following command in mysql> prompt

mysql> show databases;

It will list the predefined databases

information_schema

information_schema

If its fine , now type exit and exit out of mysql prompt .

Step 4 :

Now optionally you can install phpmyadmin .

It is a gui based mysql and php interaction system .

This is not required but will be helpful surely , go ahead and install it using the command .

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

Step 5 :

Now you have to make few changes to the php configuration file .

Go to terminal and type the following command .

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

It will open the configuration in a text editor .

Find this line

;extension=mysql.so

and change that to

extension=mysql.so

just remove the semicolon in front of extension and save it .

Now find this line in the same file

display_errors = off

change it like this

display_errors = on

If there are any semicolon just remove that and save it once again ( CTRL+S ) .

Type the following code in the terminal window and hit enter .

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 6 :

That’s it you are done . Next step is learn php/MySQL and start developing dynamic web pages

If you find any difficulty in following my tutorial , just comment here , We are ready to help you

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