Friday, January 18, 2013

Install LAMP in Ubuntu for software developing

Ref:  jamespcole Blog
http://setupguides.blogspot.com/2012/04/install-lamp-in-ubuntu-1204.html
Very useful .. time saver for me

Repost it here .. for my next setup.
 
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Install LAMP in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise(Apache, MySQL, PHP)

This is a short guide to installing a basic LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development environment on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

First install lamp:
Open a terminal and run the following:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

After the lamp server installation you will need write permissions to the /var/www directory.  Follow these steps to configure permissions.

Add your user to the www-data group

sudo usermod -a -G www-data <your user name>

now add the /var/www folder to the www-data group

sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www

now give write permissions to the www-data group

sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www

now log out and log back in to see the changes reflected in nautilus.

Some extra things to install
The following are not essential but they are things I almost always need as part of a LAMP install so I have included instructions on installing them.

Curl:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Mod rewrite:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

GD2 Graphics Lib:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd


And that's it, how easy was that?  Ubuntu rocks!

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