Over the years I’ve gained enough experience with computers to be frank enough to call me a power user of sorts. But that doesn’t mean I’m often finding myself searching Google to do even the simplest thing, partly because I have a lousy memory and partly because there is a lot of things I don’t do often enough to remember how I do it. To avoid taking down Google’s servers, I’ve started to write down everything on one page on this site; Tips & Tricks for Power-user. I’m pretty sure some of you will find the information interesting so enjoy!
A LAMP server is the basis for many web servers. It’s got nothing to do with the lighting around the server, LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. If you’re reading this, I assume that you’ve already managed to install a Linux distribution on your server and that the distribution you have installed is Ubuntu 9.10. This guide will most likely be able to help you through the process of setting up a LAMP server on other versions of Ubuntu as well as Debian, but certain package names and configurations might differ.
With Ubuntu 9.10 it became even easier to set up LAMP, and it might be possible that you did it already when installing Ubuntu. This guide assumes that you have a clean installation of Ubuntu, without Apache, MySQL and PHP, but if you already have one or more of them installed, you can still go through all the steps because you won’t break anything doing so. Now, let’s get started (I assume that you are now logged in to the server you are planning to set up). Continue reading "How To set up a LAMP Server on Ubuntu 9.10." →
