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Acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

LAMP is an acronym for a stack of four pieces of free and open-source software that are commonly used to build a general purpose web server:

  • Linux
  • Apache HTTP server
  • MySQL
  • PHP

Please have a look at the official Ubuntu Server Guide for the release you are using (which can usually be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/x/serverguide/index.html where x is replaced by the version number of Ubuntu, e.g., x=15.04 for Vivid). You can find the guide for the latest released LTS version here. Detailed explanations may be found in the Web Servers chapter and examples in the LAMP Applications chapter.

The simplest way of installing a basic LAMP stack is usually by running the following two commands from the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T should open a new terminal):

sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

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I set up a new VPS instance of Ubuntu and am wondering what the easiest way is to get up and running with a basic LAMP stack (i.e. which packages are required, which configuration options need to be tweaked, if any, etc.).
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Where to place my local website starting with the 2.4.7 version of apache2?

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netstat: command not found

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Change Apache document root folder to secondary hard drive

I installed the ubuntu 12.04 server edition for my server pc . i had installed lamp server. i need to change the var/www location to my secondary hard disk location. i was configured so many time to at gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default here…
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What Can Be Done To Secure Ubuntu Server?

I have a project to secure Ubuntu Server as much as I can. The server is a web hosting server. The server will be running LAMP , Mail , and DNS.
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ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' at Ubuntu 18.04

I have followed this tutorial to install MySQL but after successfully installed MySQL, I could not access database. ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
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Resetting forgotten phpmyadmin password

I recently installed LAMP on Ubuntu 13.04(32-bit) but forgot my phpMyAdmin password. How can I reset its password without re-installing it?
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Invalid Mutex directory in argument file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR}

hi every body after clean install of ubuntu 16.04 and tasksel lamp apache2 got this error : [Mon Jul 18 22:42:00.114578 2016] [core:warn] [pid 4654] AH00111: Config variable ${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} is not defined [Mon Jul 18 22:42:00.114623 2016]…
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Update server php version to 5.4.10 via the command line

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uninstall xampp on ubuntu using terminal command

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