Hey Addison, nicely done.... Here's a list of packages you installed for quick future reference:

• Apache2
• MySQL Client
• MySQL Server
• PHP 5
• PHP 5 - GD
• PHP 5 - MySQL
• PHPMyAdmin (in universe repository)

I also like to install CURL as there are some contributed modules out there that use it. A local mail server sometimes helps too. Great quick tutorial, keep it up!

I prefer using the 'tasksel' program which installs a prepackaged list of application
the commands would be

> sudo tasksel install lamp-server
> sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

easy as hell..but that indeed only works if all the necessary 'universe' repositories have been setup like you have explained.

As for the post-installation instructions. They come in very handy because they apply to any method used to set up the lamp-server and plan to build drupal sites.

* edit v00-default -> Allow Overide ALL
* enable rewrite module
* chown www folder

There is a (more copy and paste command-line oriented) HOWTO on the Drubuntu group on groups.drupal.org - see the development server page, or the HOWTO outline - which links to some of the other things commonly set up at this stage.

That said, it is well worth knowing how to use Synaptic, since it is an invaluable tool for general package work anyway, so this is a great resource (and I'll add a link from the Drubuntu wiki!).

In Ubuntu 7.10, before I could add Apache2 I had to turn on 'Canonical-supported Open Source software' myself, as it wasn't enabled by default.

Also, on 7.10 you probably won't see phpmyadmin in /var/www/, however it's actually still there, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591952.

Great screencast by the way. :)

I used this tutorial to set up drupal on a vm using parallels and it worked perfectly. nicely done.

Thanks a bunch Addi!! You're my hero!!

BTW, if you like music videos, I have a site setup utilizing HTML 3,
and the worst HTML coding you probably have ever seen, but
it requires no login or password and anyone can contribute videos with a
few bookmarklets: http://www.chann3lz.com/

Also I found out that spacemonger will run under wine, so if you need to organize space on your server, you can use that..

Hi
I watched this last time on my pc, now I am trying to watch it again from my ubuntu machine and cant get the video to play, any tips?

I plan on breaking things quite a lot... Anyone have any opinions/preferences regarding multiple drupal installs via sub directories vs. the subdomain method Grugnog mentions here? (requires 'Drubuntu' group subscription for access)

Really good work. Thx!

i am running server not desktop does this change anything?

i have already run this whole tutorial and everything seems as it should

Great tutorial on using the GUI, indeed!

However, when I chose php5 from the search results in the package manager, I got a strange and scary message:

"You are about to install software that can't be authenticated! Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take control of your system. The chosen action also affects other required packages."

I tried googling for this message but could not get any concrete advice. What do I do and how should I proceed? Should I install A-M-P using the command line? I would rather prefer the GUI.

Has anyone gotten this message on Ubuntu 7.1?

I'm using my ubuntu box as an internet router for 2 other pc's. I want to use it as a web and mail server too. After i followed the tutorial and restarted the pc once, the internet sharing stoped working. The other 2 pc's can ping the server, can access the webpage but there's no internet sharing :(. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem? (I'm new to linux and this stuff, so be gentle on me :) )

thank you for the great video!

but for some strange reason i can't download the file, only stream it in ubuntu(firefox+totem).
this drives me _absolutely nuts_ !
the download link gives me only a "waiting for www.lullabot.com"....

maybe something is not working on your side (modules/settings??)?

keep making more of those please :D

Thanks for a great tutorial! been getting stuck on this for a while and now everything's up and running!

thank you fir helping to install local webserver

Hi..Thanks to the video, anyway different thing goes to ubuntu 8.04. the problem is the permission..is there anyway i can change the permission of the directory?
i've change the www ownership but when i install drupal and installation goes smooth, the files directory is not found and i make one. but after that, i refresh and it says the files directory is not writable. i installed drupal 5.7. Drupal 6.2 also dont work (this the first one i install)
help me out ok..thanks..

HI Addison,
Great job, I think your video cast will give me adequate information to transition a web site from IIS to Apache. I am fairly new to LAMP, so far I have been impressed by Ubuntu. I still struggle with the various LAMP terminology, file organization, where and what issues.
I wish there are more targeted and well defined type of video casts like yours out there.
Again thanks.

can this web server use as a streaming server?

Thank you for this nice video.

thanks

that's right.
in my /var/www folder, there is only that index.html file
but phpmyadmin folder and the apache one are missing
can anyone help me with this
I've ubuntu 8.04 installed and I'm an absolutely noob