LAMP

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Revision as of 21:08, 11 October 2008

APM in web application development normally stands for 'Apache Web Server, PHP and MySQL.'

This instruction is for Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (possibly other versions). It may work for other Linux distributions or may not. This document only has the essential information to install those software packages so for details please see other documents which have the details such as how to configure and use.

Install Apache Web Server

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Install MySQL Database

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Change Charset

-modify /etc/mysql/my.cnf file (add default-character-set=utf8)

user            = mysql
pid-file        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port            = 3306
basedir         = /usr
datadir         = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir          = /tmp
language        = /usr/share/mysql/english
default-character-set=utf8
skip-external-locking

...

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completion
default-character-set=utf8

Install PHP module for Apache

$ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Install PHPMyAdmin

$ apt-get install phpmyadmin