Wednesday, June 20, 2007

installing LAMP on vps

Nowadays, Linux is becoming easier to install. More supports and wider community means more people are willing to help you out there.

Me next task is setting up LAMP on my vps. Being a debian 4 server, I will use the magic of apt-get.

# just to update the package system
debian:~# apt-get update

# install mysql first, to be able to be picked up by Apache
# also install the client, for debugging purpose
# use meta package mysql-server and mysql-client to get the newest version
debian:~# apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

# for basic apache+php5 install, do this!
# don't forget to install mpm-prefork to get better multi-threaded support
debian:~# apt-get install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork php5

# don't forget to install phpmyadmin, to manage your mysql easily.
debian:~# apt-get install phpmyadmin


Testing my setup by open it in the web browser shows, the apache default message "It works!", Also, test the phpmyadmin by open it in the web browser. [At the moment, I don't publish the url as the server has not been secured yet.]

That's all for today. But my jobs has not finished yet. Next is how to secure the LAMP server.

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