LAMP Installation On Ubuntu

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I have previously mentioned that something is wrong with my whole “LAMP” setup on this machine. I often have trouble with some PHP/MySQL stuff and I’m sure that it’s my own fault but it’s pretty annoying. For instance, tonight I downloaded a copy of WordPress to install locally as a test bed. When I went to install I got a message “your php installation is missing MySQL” or something like that. Oddly enough, PHPMySQL Admin works just fine. I also ran into trouble trying to get Torrentflux to work. So, this evening’s big project was to remedy the situation.

Due to various installs and such I found I had both PHP4 and PHP5 installed. I also have some remnants of Apache along side of Apache2. The only clean part of my installation was MySQL. However, in efforts to completely right this ship I uninstalled EVERYTHING. I did a complete removal of anything labeled with PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then I went into my /etc/ directory as root (careful here – easy to break stuff) and cleaned up any remnants I could find of all products. Then I rebooted to ensure I hadn’t broken my system (I hadn’t). Now I had a roughly clean environment to work with. I then followed the tutorial listed in the link above. It’s a very basic tutorial but by following it I was able to get the required packages for a Lamp environment installed. After that, I installed WordPress locally and it worked just fine. I’m going to try and minimize the amount of extra libraries that I install relating to PHP and/or Apache in order to keep things in good shape.