[Ubuntu] Install LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) server

想要用 Linux 來架設網站，我們可以使用 LAMP 這套開源的平台。
即使用 Linux 作為操作系統， Apache 作為 Web 服務器， MySQL 作為數據庫和使用 PHP 作為腳本語言。 ( Perl 或 Python 經常被用來取代 PHP )
事實上，各自安裝這些軟體是很麻煩的，還好有現成的安裝套件可以幫助我們快速的完成架設 LAMP server 。

Steps:

1. There are two ways could install LAMP server
1. Use the apt-get
1. Execute following command
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^


2. Create password for the MySQL "root" user
root


2. Use tasksel
1. Install tasksel
sudo apt-get install tasksel


2. Use tasksel to install LAMP stack
sudo tasksel install lamp-server


3. Create password for the MySQL "root" user
root




2. Checking Apache2 installation
http://localhost



3. Checking PHP5 installation
1. Create a quick php info page (/var/www/index.php)
echo -e "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sudo tee /var/www/index.php


2. Checking
http://localhost/index.php




4. Checking MySQL installation
1. Executd following command
mysqladmin -u root -p status


2. Enter the password. If everything is working correctly, will show massage like below:
Uptime: 2117 Threads: 1 Questions: 575 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 421 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 41 Queries per second avg: 0.271




5. Install phpMyAdmin
1. Install by apt-get
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin


2. Choose the web server
apache2


3. Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?
Yes


4. Provide the password of MySQL administrator
root


5. Create and confirm MySQL application password for phpmyadmin
root


6. Configure apache2.conf to work with Phpmyadmin
echo -e "\n# Include the phpMyAdmin configurations:\nInclude /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf" | sudo tee -a /etc/apache2/apache2.conf


7. Restart Apache2
sudo service apache2 restart


8. Enter phpMyAdmin
http://localhost/phpmyadmin

User name: root
Password: root

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References:

• Ubuntu > Community Help Wiki > ApacheMySQLPHP