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The better way to install LAMP on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

All this comes from here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
In the teminal:

$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
$ sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add the following to the end of this file:  “Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf”

Edit the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file and increase the memory_limit value. I used 64M, but that may be overkill.

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How to configure Apache virtual hosting in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Before you do anything, back up your original config files. I used to just create a copy of the files with the suffix “.bak” (sudo cp example.conf example.conf.bak), which works, but creates a lot of clutter. Now I use a great little utility called etckeeper which automatically places all files in /etc under [...]

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