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An article by Patrick J. Waters about Webmin and Virtualmin

His article is entitled:  My favorite web server setup, Ubuntu Server, LAMP, Webmin, and Virtualmin

patrick — Wed, 07/13/2011 – 20:33

It contains step-by-step instructions for installing Ubuntu with the LAMP options plus Webmin and Virtualmin.

Patrick’s introductory paragraph explains, “Over the past few years I have experimented with different web server setups. I have found that the combination Ubuntu,  LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP), Webmin, and finally Virtualmin provide many advantages in my day to day workflow as a web developer. This setup provides me with an easy to use and easy to maintain web server that lessens the time spent configuring the server and increases my time programming. Here are my step by step instructions for setting up my favorite server configuration.”

My commentary:  I found Patrick’s well written and well organized article because I was searching for a graphical interface for managing the configuration of Apache, PHP, MySQL, DNS services, and IMAP/SMTP email, on my Ubuntu server 12.04.02 O/S.  On my Ubuntu server, I have installed the open source ZPanel from the Zpanel script, which installation seems good so far for setting up domain users, hosting their domains, ftp, databases, and webmail.  However, it lacks the ability to access and manage the configuration files without me having to manually search for their paths on the server’s file system.  In this regard, the Zpanel documentation and forum support seems a bit scant.  And, I do not know whether ZPanel automatically installs various services to different directories than the default directories that would have been established if I had installed LAMP as selected options during the Ubuntu server installation.  Due to this concern of mine, I remain reluctant to install Webmin and Virtmin unless they actually search the file system or otherwise locate and identify the exact location of the relevant configuration files to be managed.

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Installing LAMP (Linux – Apache, MySql, PHP) on Ubuntu 12.04.02

This is one way to install Apache2 webserver, MySql database server, and PHP5 web server support, plus PhpMyAdmin, onto Linux Ubuntu server or Ubuntu desktop v. 12.04.02 distribution.

Credit to Kevin Whitman for his excellent youtube tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrGD2X-sDQY

And credit Kevin Whitman’s Blog articles: See: Part 2  http://kevinwhitman.com/2011/06/27/set-up-a-sandbox-to-test-php-apps-part-2-install-web-server-php-mysql-and-phpmyadmin/

Note:  For windows remote SSH access to your Ubuntu server, you should download and execute PuTTY or similar SSH client for establishing a terminal interface to the Ubuntu server IP address.  You can find and download PuTTY open source from sourceforge.net here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/putty.mirror/ . This article assumes that Ubuntu server or Desktop version 12.04.02 (32 bit or 64 bit) is already installed as your server.

Installing Apache Webserver on Ubuntu:

root ~> apt-get install apache2 (Enter)
(answer Y(es) to download the installation package and install it.)

Installing MySQL on Ubuntu:

root ~> apt-get install mysql-server
(you should setup a MySQL ‘root’ password when prompted.  Write it down so you won’t forget the password for ‘root.’)

Install PHP on Ubuntu:

apt-get install php5 php5-gd php-pear php5-mysql php5-curl php5-memcache

Y(es) to download etc.

Restart the Apache web server after installing PHP:

root ~> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (Enter)

Test Your PHP and Apache installation:

Create a php information file called “testinfo.php” to test PHP and Apache.

at the default /var/www/ directory, and the testinfo.php file should have only the following one line of content:

<?php phpinfo() ?>

Create this testinfo.php file using a text editor.  Access it from http://the_server_IP_address/testinfo.php

Install PHPMYADMIN

root~> apt-get install phpmyadmin

select apache

configure the database root password

Copy the phpmyconf file (configuration file) over

ls –s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Then restart apache web server 

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

So, now phpmyadmin will come up in the browser http://Server_IP_address/phpmyadmin

Login to phpMyadmin with the username:  root
and the password you established