Howtoforge has an excellent tutorial on installing LAMP on Ubuntu. The tutorial is aimed towards beginners or as the site likes to call them “Newbies”.

In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowledge of using Linux

I followed the tutorial myself on a test machine and everything installed the way it should. So if your interested in setting up a web server or just like try out new things, I recommend the following how to.

Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

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