Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 11.04

Followed the instructions in this link to install LAMP.
If you get this message while restarting apache - “apache2: Could not determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for localhost”
Type this in the terminal to fix the problem:

echo "ServerName localhost" | sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn

and reload apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Brain food - PHP, mySQL, Apache stuff

Here are some common tasks that a newbie in PHP needs to memorize:

Restarting Apache, after doing some tweaks

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Editing the php.ini file

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

php.ini to display errors, for the development web server:
After opening the php.ini file for editing, scroll down to the Error handling and logging section.

Comment out the error_reporting = ... line, copy-paste it to a new line, and change it to:

error_reporting = E_ALL

Scroll down further to the line display_errors = ... and change it to:

display_errors = On

Accessing mySQL at the command-line:

mysql --user=root --password={root's password]