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:

Then the PHP module, php-mySQL support and phpmyadmin tool are installed by the
following commands:

Next the apache server has to be restarted in order to make the MySQL and PHP modules
to work. The apache server can be restarted by the command:

Now you should have a fully working php-mysql webserver with /var/www as your
working directory. In this directory you should place all your php projects. In
order to check if everything installed correctly you can create a new file
test.php in /var/www with the following content:

<br/><?php
<br/>print "Hooray! succesfully installed";
<br/>?>
<br/>

Now start a webbrowser and fill in the adress http://localhost/test.php. If the text
'Hooray! succesfully installed' appears in the browser it means everything installed
correctly. You can now manage your sql databases through the phpmyadmin by opening
the adress http://localhost/phpmyadmin. If your browser tries to download the file
test.php something went wrong, try to go over the steps above and make sure you
didn't miss something.