The first thing we want to do is install apache2.
Open your terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install apache2
You will probably be prompted for a password to install as root, enter it and then press "y" to proceed with the install. After everything installs, the following commands will give you the ability to start and stop apache2.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
Once installed point your browser to http://localhost - there you should see a message claiming it worked.
The directory you will be working out of is /var/www/
That's it time to install PHP.
Open your terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
Once the process completes, restart apache by typing into the terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
To test our install of php open up gedit or your favorite text editor and create a file called test.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
make sure you save it in the /var/www/ directory, open your browser and type http://localhost/test.php to ensure the phpinfo file we created appears and our install was successful.
*** When doing this step, my permissions weren't enabled to write/delete files because I wasn't logged in as root. So lets do a change ownership of the directory. There are lots of ways to do this step, but for now just type into your terminal.
sudo chown nykc /var/www/
be sure to change the [username] with your username...
Ok we are now 2/3 of the way there, all that is left is MySQL.
To install MySQL:
Open up the terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
you will be advised to create a root password for MySQL - go ahead and create that and continue with the install.
MySQL should now be installed.
Open up the terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
this will install a program called phpMyAdmin which is a nice graphical tool used to edit your database. Make sure you select apache2 when prompted then continue with the install.
Now to get php working with myqsl type the following into the terminal.
gksudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
find the following commented line in the document.
; extension=mysql.so
remove the ";" so the line now reads
extension=mysql.so
now let's restart apache2 again...
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
open up your terminal type:
mysql -uname -p
replace -uname with your -u username enter your newly created password and you are ready to configure.
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