Install Ubuntu webserver with LAMP

1. Lets start with Apache:

1. Open the terminal  from Applications > Accessories > Terminal

2. Install apache2 using apt-get by typing the following

sudo apt-get install apache2

Now everything should be downloaded and installed automatically.
To start/stop apache2 write:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

Your www folder should be in: /var/www/

If everything is OK you should see an ordinary HTML page when you type: http://localhost in your firefox browser

So that’s apache, lets move on to php
 

2. Install php

again in the terminal type:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

that’s it for the php part, lets go to the final step and install MySql

3.Install MySql:

1. in terminal again, type the following:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

2. (optional) If you are running a server you should probably bind your address by editing bind-address in /etc/mysql/my.cnf and replacing its value (127.0.0.1) by your IP address
3. set your root password (although mysql should ask you about that when installing)

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@’localhost’ = PASSWORD(’xxxxxx’);

 As last step install PHPMyAdmin for a graphical user interface of MySQL by executing

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

5. restart apache for the last time

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Well done n00b! Ur LAMP server is running

Now that u mastered this why not move on and install Drupal on your machine?