Install LAMP on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

Hello Linux Geeksters.

In this article I will show you how to install LAMP on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail.

As you know, LAMP comes from Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. LAMP is so popolar that it powers half of the online websites.

Installing LAMP:

To start installing LAMP on Ubuntu, do this:

$ sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Next, do the following:

$ sudo usermod -a -G www-data your_user
$ sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www
$ sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www
$ sudo apt-get install php5-curl
$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

Next, open the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file in your favourite text editor:

$ sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Change the following code block. From this:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

To this:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

Restart the Apache server:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To turn on error messages, open the files /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini and change display_errors = Off to display_errors = On.

Testing if LAMP works:

To verify if Apache runs, type: http://localhost in your browser’s URL bar.

To test if the PHP is working properly, paste the following line to /var/www/test.php:

<?php phpinfo();?>

Next, go to http://localhost/test.php and if the following image appears, it means that php also works:

To test MySQL run this command:

$ mysql -u root -p

You must enter the same password you created for MySQL during the installation to sign in.