This page will contain useful information on installing and configuring the Apache web server.

====== Linux ======
  * Apache 2 - Linux Web server
  * MySQL 5 - MySQL Database Server
  * PHP4/5 - PHP Scripting Language
  * phpMyAdmin - Web-based database admin software.
  
Note: **L**inux + **A**pache + **M**ySQL + **P**HP/Perl together commonly known as **LAMP** Server.


===== Apache2/PHP5 =====

<cli>
$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5
</cli>

Apache configuration file is located at: **/etc/apache2/apache2.conf** and your web folder is **/var/www**.

To check whether php is installed and running properly, just create a test.php in your **/var/www** folder with **phpinfo()** function:
<cli>
<?  phpinfo(); ? >
</cli>
Check to see if apache2 is working.  Point your browser at **127.0.0.1 or localhost**.  You should see "THIS WORKS!".
Check to see if PHP is working; point your browser at **localhost/test.php**.  You should see a load of nice php info.

Delete test.php!!

If the test.php doesn't work restart apache and it should work then.
<cli>
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
</cli>

===== MySQL =====

<cli>
$sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql
</cli>

You will be prompted to give mysql's root user a password.

===== PHPMyAdmin =====

<cli>
$sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
</cli>

The phpmyadmin configuration file is located at: **/etc/phpmyadmin** folder.

To set up under Apache all you need to do is include the following line in **/etc/apache2/apache2.conf**:

<cli>
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
</cli>

Restart Apache:

<cli>
$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
</cli>
 
Now check **localhost/phpmyadmin** in your browser.

===== Mods =====

Modules allow you to add or remove functionality as dedictated by your requirements.

Looking at **/etc/apache2/mods-enabled** and **/etc/apache2/mods-available** will show you which mods you have and which are enabled.
=== userdir ===

Lets you use /home/<username>/public_html/ as webroot for http://<domain>/~<username>

<cli>
$sudo a2enmod userdir
</cli>
=== rewrite ===

Lets you rewrite ugly URLs with nicer one's.

<cli>
$sudo a2enmod rewrite
</cli>


====== ServerName ======

If you get this message when restarting apache

<cli>
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
</cli>


Add this line to the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file and the error should be fixed

<cli>
ServerName localhost
</cli>

====== Windows ======

If you want to develop on Windows using a WAMP platform, I suggest you take a look at the [[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html|XAMPP]] project (any platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin). It makes setting up this whole thing a lot easier on Windows.