I wrote previously about the pre-made OpenSUSE 10.2 LAMP Server for Windows Virtual PC and it has been helpful in brushing up on command line Linux with a LAMP stack. After playing around it dawned on me that if I had a virtual LAMP server with a more recent version of PHP I could have a development mirror of this WordPress blog. So starting with the Lubuntu VM I created I’ve added a LAMP solution stack and a cloned copy of this blog.
Installing the LAMP Stack
Most of the pages I found about installing a LAMP stack on Lubuntu where very old (in Linux years) so they had far more steps than necessary. The fastest way I found was in a Comment on the Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies page.
Its really easy to install LAMP with ONE single command in ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ phpmyadmin
When the installation nears the end you’ll be prompted to do these steps. Continue reading “A Lubuntu LAMP VM”
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