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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Apache, MySQL & PHP on Ubuntu

Lately I've been performing lots of fresh system installs, a result of testing my Ubuntu respin. Restoring my personal data after such an install is simple enough, but having to reinstall my Apache, MySQL & PHP set-up requires a little more effort. So, for future reference I've decided to record the process. By following the instructions below I should be able to get my development server up and running within minutes.

AMP install instructions

1. Open a terminal and issue the following command to install the three main packages:

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5

This will install the following packages:
apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5
libapr1 libaprutil1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libpq5 mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0
php5 php5-common

2. Get some additional packages:

sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-gd php5-mysql php5-imagick phpmyadmin

This will install:
libgd2-xpm libmcrypt4 libt1-5 php-pear php5-cli php5-gd php5-imagick php5-mcrypt
php5-mysql phpmyadmin

3. Enable URL rewriting:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

gksudo gedit  /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Edit line 12 to read, "AllowOverride All". Save and exit.

4. Create a symbolic link to my working directory:

sudo ln -s /home/username/htdocs /var/www/htdocs

5. Finally, restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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6 Responses to “Apache, MySQL & PHP on Ubuntu”

  1. bdam wrote, Thursday, January 10th, 2008

    Please use ~ instead of /home/username so we all just can copy&paste the lines

  2. Philip wrote, Thursday, January 10th, 2008

    As bdam points out, the command entered at step 4 could be replaced with:

    sudo ln -s ~/htdocs /var/www/htdocs

    Either way the end result is the same. Also, it should be noted that "htdocs" is just the name of the directory I use for my website development files. You can name the directory to your liking.

  3. mWm wrote, Friday, January 11th, 2008

    Tnx. Great post. One thing: how can I create files in /var/www without having to be root?

  4. Philip wrote, Friday, January 11th, 2008

    @mWm: This is why I create a symbolic link [step 4] to my working directory under my home directory, it saves me having to move files around the system, plus any changes I make are instantly reflected.

    If you do want to publish directly to your web server's document root you could always try changing the ownership of the directory:

    sudo chown username:username /var/www

    However I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Probably a better way to achieve this would be to change the document root listed in the configuration files under /etc/apache2/ to a directory under your home directory.

    Hope this helps :)

  5. kannan.v.s wrote, Thursday, February 12th, 2009

    Its really helped to me, thanks a lot.

  6. James wrote, Monday, February 23rd, 2009

    You forgot to say if anyone wants that http://localhost redirects to the linked folder instead of http://localhost/htdocs, you should edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and set your new root

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