How To Setup LAMP on uBuntu 11.04 – Also, WordPress

In this article, we will work on setting up a LAMP environment for uBuntu 11.04. As an added bonus, I will setup WordPress 3.2 in the environment for you nerds. As you may notice in previous posts, I have a nice little lappy which allows me to dev on the run.

Installing LAMP onto uBuntu 11.04

First thing is first, we need to install tasksel then run it via terminal.

[code lang=”bash”]
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel[/code]

Select LAMP Server and proceed to install it!

While you are installing LAMP, you will be prompted to set a password for MySQL root.

First of all, /var/www/ directory is set for root user only. We want to allow our IDE’s, such as Netbeans or Vi/Vim/Nano have permissions to write to this directory. So let’s sudo su and chown /var/www/

[code lang=”bash”]
sudo su
chown yourusername:yourusername /var/www/
exit
[/code]

At this point, let’s test to see if LAMP is running.

[code lang=”bash”]sudo vi /var/www/index.php[/code]

Within index.php just enter phpinfo(); to check if the PHP core fires an output!

[code lang=”php”]<?php phpinfo(); ?>[/code]

Save index.php and exit.

When you visit http://localhost/index.php you should get an output. If you do not, you can try restarting apache2 with the following command:

[code lang=”bash”]sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart[/code]

Installing phpMyAdmin To Manage Your MySQL Databases on uBuntu 11.04

[code lang=”bash”]sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin[/code]

WordPress: World Famous 5 Minute Installation

Head over to WordPress.org and grab the latest version of WordPress. Extract the zip file to /var/www/wordpress

Visit http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database.

Under the Privileges tab, goto Add New User. Make sure under Global Privileges click Check All and hit Go.

Visit http://localhost/wordpress and setup your WordPress install! Bam! Your done!