In this multi-part article, I’m going to be showing you how to install the popular LAMP stack - that’s Linux, Apache, the MySQL database system and PHP (in this example, although you can have Perl, Python etc. instead) for running your own website or web development server.

The LAMP stack is a very popular setup and many websites run on it (including FOSSwire!). Best of all, all four of the tools in the stack are free and open source and really easy to get started with. For this tutorial, I’m going to be showing you how to install LAMP on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, but the process is very similar for other Linux distributions too. By the way, if you have a Windows machine that you want to do this on, check out this tutorial on our sister site GizBuzz instead for a nice easy WAMP setup.

Part 1

Part 2