Installing a lamp server on ubuntu 8.10 is very easyily done by following the
next steps. The result of this tutorial will be a working php-mysql webserver
for all your php projects. First the apache webserver is installed by firing
up a terminal and executing the command:

You can check if everything went fine by starting a webbrowser and typing in the
following adress: http://localhost/ If the text 'It works!' appears apache
installed correctly. Next the MySQL and
PHP server need to be installed. First the MySQL server is installed by the command: