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.
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What's the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack?
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 ...
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What is the best way to add files to a website on a LAMP Server?
I have just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 with a LAMP setup. I want to host a website there but I'm not sure which is the best way to get/edit my files on the server. Googling provides many options ...
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How do I set up local Joomla sites for web developing?
I plan to develop multiple websites using Joomla. I'm using Ubuntu Desktop, and only need to access the sites and configuration files locally, while logged in to my user account.
Previously I tried ...
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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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Cannot start XAMPP on Ubuntu 11.10
When I try to start XAMPP with sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start command it gives me a message like this.
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.7...
XAMPP: Another web server daemon with SSL is already running.
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Cannot start XAMPP
When I try to start XAMPP with /opt/lampp/lampp start command it gives me a message like this.
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.7...
XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running.
XAMPP: ...
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How to update to PHP 5.3.10 in 10.04?
I'm new to Linux and have only the basic experience with Ubuntu and installing LAMP Server. I've successfully installed all using the "apt-get install" method. My problem is I want to update PHP 5.3.2 ...
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phpmyadmin 404 error on fresh ubuntu 12.04 install
I regularly set up Virtualbox ubuntu setups to run as local webservers. I have set these up several times and never had an issue. However, something has changed:
1)VB guest additions no longer allow ...
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Starting and stopping server with a desktop shortcut
I use
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
and
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
every time in order to start and stop the lampp server installed in my computer.
Is there some way by which I can create an icon ...
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How to have two version of PHP installed and switch easily?
I want to have both PHP 5.2.17 and PHP 5.3.5 installed on my Ubuntu machine and switch as per my necessity. How can I achieve this?
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How do I remove the LAMP stack so I can start over?
I'd like to start over with my webserver and I'd like to reinstall all the LAMP packages, how do I do that?
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Is there a simple mail server I can install?
I have a desktop install of ubuntu, not server. But I am running a localhost LAMP stack for development. Is there a simple mail server I can install so that PHP's sendmail works?
Ideally it will ...
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Do we need Swap partition on a LAMP server?
Do we need actually swap partition on the ubuntu-server with LAMP?
I think I don't need it, but better to know for sure if it will not
cause some unpredicted behaviour.
Actually my thoughts were:
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How do I install joomla 1.7 on a lamp server?
I have a joomla 1.7 business live site and would like to know how to install wamp server and joomla 1.7 on ubuntu 11.1. I use it to work on site locally, then back it up and upload it to the live site ...
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'/'var/www/' vs '/home/$USER/public_html'
I recently started using Ubuntu as a LAMP server. I've come across plenty of tutorials that say to place the files at '/var/www/' and I've also seen others that put them in '/home/$USER/public_html/'.
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Changed LAMP WWW directory to Dropbox, now getting 403 Forbidden
I wan to use my Dropbox/Web directory as the server directory for LAMP. I cahnged /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
DocumentRoot /home/me/Dropbox/Web #changed from /etc/www
<Directory />
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Help with LAMP sever
Firstly I followed the instructions on the following site to install the LAMP server:
http://www.multimediaboom.com/how-to-install-lamp-server-in-ubuntu-11-0410-1010-04/#comment-48391
step 3: go to ...
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What steps do I follow to run a stock Hello World CGI script?
Assume I have finished installing a modern release of stock Ubuntu, and have the following script.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/html\n"
echo "<html><body>Hello ...
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500 Error on index.php file. All other php files are working well [closed]
I've successfully installed LAMP and created some virtual hosts. Everything is working fine except index.php files.
When I try access them, browser returns 500 Error, regardless of their content. ...
