Install LAMP and Wordpress on Ubuntu 12.04

Install LAMP

Open terminal and Type the command :install it   first  with

sudo apt-get install tasksel

Now to install LAMP, type the taskel command in terminal :

sudo  tasksel

And select LAMP Server:

During the installation  you  will be  asked  to insert the  mysql root  password

Create info.php file:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

and save to /var/www

restart apache2 ,

#sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now open browser and type :

http://ip/info.php or http://localhost/info.php

PHP is installed.

To full manage  your  lamp Server database, install  phpmyadmin

sudo  apt-get  install  phpmyadmin

To login  to phpmyadmin, open browser and type :

http://ip/phpmyadmin   or http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Install Wordpress

1. Create a new database for your new site in phpmyadmin and create new user with full privileges.

2. Create your site folder in /var/www

3. Download latest version of Wordpress from wordpress.org and extract it into your new site folder

4. Open wp-config-sample.php file, make the following changes and save the file as wp-config.php:

define('DB_NAME', 'YourDatabaseName');/** MySQL database username */define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);/** MySQL database password */define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘YOUR MYSQL PASSWORD’);/** MySQL hostname */define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);Get credentials from: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/and replace default lines with the lines from link.