Installing LAMP on a clean Ubuntu server

I recently just setup a clean Ubuntu server, I’m going to use this box for my dedicated CI machine and repository. To prepare this box for being a Continuous Integration machine I need to do a few things first including getting it to be accessible to the web. This post walks through getting a clean Ubuntu server setup with LAMP.

First thing your going to want to do on a fresh install is update your repository sources list otherwise your box is pretty much useless.

Update Sources List

sudo apt-get update

Now your repository is updated and ready for installs

Install LAMP

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

If / when prompted set your mysql root password. Next edit bind-address in /etc/mysql/my.cnf and replacing its value (127.0.0.1) by your IP address

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Install phpMyAdmin

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

Now edit the apache2 configuration file to include phpMyAdmin

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

At the end of the file add the following two lines

# Include phpmyadmin configuration
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

For good measure restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now lets get phpMyAdmin to work with php5

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql mysql-client

You’r going to need to add the following line to the php.ini file “extensions=mysql.so”

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now that your done, make sure you chmod your web directory

sudo chmod 0777 /var/www -R

original sources
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/installing-php5-and-apache-on-ubuntu/
http://joeabiraad.com/linuxunix/installing-lamp-on-ubuntu-710-linuxapachemysqlphp/100
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP