Just a quickie

Hi folks, wanted to post a follow-up to my introduction to LAMP servers, in case you found it a little too vague and lacking in detail. (Which was intentional, since I was pitching it towards newbies).

Without advocating any particular distribution / server, be advised that most of the examples I will give here will be based on a debian/UBUNTU system, due to current popularity. You can download and install Ubuntu for yourself, if you have a spare machine, or if not, look out for the ~69MB Ubuntu Server available as a VMware VA (virtual appliance) format.

I also tend to work with RHEL based CentOS distros, from time to time, and of course, the variety of other UNIXes from the collective boxen in the hive. However, they are beyond the scope of this discussion, so assume unless otherwise stated that my examples are running on an Ubuntu server.

Here's a place to get a useful step-by-step guide on howto get your Ubuntu LAMP server up and running, although it looks as though they've been extending it and improving since I last took a copy: http://mysql-apache-php.com/