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In this article, I will share my experience install and configure LAMP on Ubuntu Linux.

1. Launch Terminal
First open up Applications->Accessories->Terminal.

2. Install Apache
Type the following line of command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

3.Install PHP5
Execute the following command by typing the following line in the Terminal and hit enter:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

4. To Stop/Restart Apache
Execute the following command in the Terminal:

Stop/Restart Apache

5.Install MySQL Server

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

6.Set mysql root password
You’ll need to set a password for local computer gets root access.

a. First type the follwing line and hit enter to avoid being prompted for password:

sudo su

b. now you must kill the running mysql server. The process id is grabbed from /var/run/mysqld/ and inserted into the kill statement. Note there are ticks (`) around the process id, not single quotes (’).

kill `cat /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid`

c. Now you need to run a command to cause the server not to use the privilege system at all, which gives anyone with access to the server unrestricted access to all databases.

mysqld –skip-grant-tables & mysql -u root

d. Set the password:
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD (’newpassword’) WHERE User = ‘root’;

e. execute the following commands one by one to finish the password setup.
exit
kill `cat /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid`
mysqld &
mysql -u root -p

7.Install MySQL Administrator

sudo apt-get install mysql-admin

8. Refresh Gnome Panel

killall gnome-panel

9. Install MySQL for Apache HTTP Server

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

10. To get PHP to work with MySQL, open the php.ini file

gksudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

11. Add the following line somewhere in the opened up file:

extension=mysql.so

12. Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now you are done!

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