added this line to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

# The phpmyadmin config:
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

this adds the phpmyadmin alias to the apache installation. restart apache with:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

also installed proftpd using apt-get. used the standalone installation.

out of the box, things seemed to work ok. users log straight into their /home/user folders!

one way to get things almost working is to use ln -s to create a link in a user’s home to the folder in /var/www where the wordpress installation of interest is located. This way, the ftp of wordpress works properly, and things look like they are served ok through apache.

The only problem remains that permalinks are not working correctly as mod_rewrite doesn’t appear to be installed with the lamp installation I am using.

why do you need to install xamp or wamp in linux? its very simple to setup a complete webserver in ubuntu . With 2 simple commands you can get a perfect lamp setup.

Step 1: sudo apt-get install tasksel
Note : tasksel is already installed in all versions of ubuntu 7.04 and later so far as i remember but you can check it….

Step 2: sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Your root directory is /var/www

The server is started by default whenever you boot your computer but if you wish to enable or disable then you can type the following commands

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

But this is also incomplete for my purposes. No myphpadmin, not ftp server, and perhaps most annoying, apache by this method appears not to come with mod_rewrite!

let’s keep going…

the installion I tried broke the wordpress API calls which makes it hard to install new themes and plugins through the console…

so, I had to change tack…

Then some starting points:

Someone’s blog post: lamp installation on ubuntu

which then goes on to: wordpress

another way to do it: xampp

There will be more to come, but this could be the beginnings of a script…

$ tasksel install lamp-server

(specify a root password for mysql).

$ a2enmod rewrite

$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

$ apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin

uncomment line “;extension=msql.so” in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

add the line “Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf” in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And that is the end of most of the supporting packages…

$ apt-get install proftpd

Standalone package!

Query to self: ??? Be careful to go to the server’s ip address when configuring wordpress – but you know what, I can change the entries in the database table if I change the IP address!!! See here!

let’s test that out…

ok, on xampp, the permalinks work straight out of the box!

Now, a quick phpinfo query to see if the mod_rewrite thing is listed… yes it is!!!

OK. uninstalling xampp and onto the apt-get installation…

And the apt-get installation does not have mod_rewrite enables by default, but a simple call of:

a2enmod rewrite

did the trick followed by a restart of apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

<?php
if( function_exists( ‘fsockopen’ ) )
{
if( ( $sock = fsockopen( ‘freewebspace.net’, 80, $errno, $errstr ) ) )
{
printf( “Your client is stupid, fsockopen is available and works<Br />\n
” );
}
else printf( “Cannot use file descriptor on socket: #%d: %s<br/>\n”, $errno,
$errstr );
}
else printf( “No fsockopen, please post php.ini on fws for joe to look at<br />\
n” );
?>

<?php phpinfo(); ?>