How to install Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 in Ubuntu 10.04

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Apache 2
To install Apache server type the following command in terminal.
sudo apt-get install apache2
 
When it says "Do you want to continue [Y/n]?" just press ENTER.
After installation is finished test it on your browser - "http://localhost". If it shows --

It works!

This is the default web page for this server.
The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.
 
 
That means your server installation is working fine.
Changing document root see.
 
PHP 5
To install PHP type following command on terminal. 
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
 
Then restart Apache Server using
 
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 
MySQL 5
To install MySQL 5 put the following command on the terminal.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
 
After intalling MySQL you will need to install another package which will help PHP to connect with MySQL.
Type following command on the terminal for that package.
 
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql 
 
To install phpmyadmin use the following command
 
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
 
Also, by default the phpmyadmin script is installed in /usr/share/phpmyadmin, a directory that isn't access from Apache.



You'll want to do the following to get http://localhost/phpmyadmin to work
 
cd /var/www
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 
 
 

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