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Mon, 11 February 2013 21:32   |
M. Strobel
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Am 11.02.2013 21:20, schrieb Cal Dershowitz:
> On 02/11/2013 06:40 AM, Warren Post wrote:
>> On 02/10/2013 08:58 PM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
>>> The tutorial I looked at wants me to install XAMPP. Is that the best
>>> idea for getting a php development environment squared away given that
>>> this
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux fred-desktop 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18
>>> 16:39:21 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> is my platform?
>>
>> I have a strong preference for using my distro's packages when available
>> rather than 3rd party products. In your case, that would be Ubuntu's
>> Apache, either MySQL or MariaDB, and PHP, installed and tested in that
>> order. This combination is called LAMP.
>>
>> I haven't had opportunity to set up a LAMP server on Ubuntu, but perhaps
>> the notes I took when doing it on Mandriva will help you get going:
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>> http://my.opera.com/wpost/blog/index.dml/tag/LAMP
>>
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> Thx all for responses. The tutorial I looked at talked of XAAMP, where I was
> basically-ignorant of what the acronym might mean.
>
> http://my.opera.com/wpost/blog/install-php
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> So I think I need the AMP part. I guess I'm assuming that the L was for Linux. As I
> look at Apache in the synaptic package manager, I see 200 choices again.
>
> You'd think that someone would have rolled the process togther a bit, as many times
> as it has to have been done.
There are generic packages with a good preselection for apache2, php, and mysql, no
need to go into package details for a starter.
/Str.
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