Question

I am using xampp on Windows, but I would like to use something closer to my server setup.

Federico Cargnelutti tutorial explains how to setup LAMP VMWARE appliance; it is a great introduction to VMware appliances, but one of the commands was not working and it doesn’t describe how to change the keyboard layout and the timezone.

ps: the commands are easy to find but I don’t want to look for them each time I reinstall the server. I am using this question as a reminder.

Answer 1

This is my install scrpt, I use it on debian servers, but it will work in Ubuntu (Ubuntu is built on Debian)

apt-get -yq update apt-get -yq upgrade apt-get -yq install sudo apt-get -yq install gcc apt-get -yq install g++ apt-get -yq install make apt-get -yq install apache2 apt-get -yq install php5 apt-get -yq install php5-curl apt-get -yq install php5-mysql apt-get -yq install php5-gd apt-get -yq install mysql-common apt-get -yq install mysql-client apt-get -yq install mysql-server apt-get -yq install phpmyadmin apt-get -yq install samba echo '[global]    workgroup = workgroup    server string = %h server    dns proxy = no    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m    max log size = 1000    syslog = 0    panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d    encrypt passwords = true    passdb backend = tdbsam    obey pam restrictions = yes    ;invalid users = root    unix password sync = no    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u    passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .    socket options = TCP_NODELAY [homes]    comment = Home Directories    browseable = no    writable = no    create mask = 0700    directory mask = 0700    valid users = %S [www]    comment = WWW    writable = yes    locking = no    path = /var/www    public = yes' > /etc/samba/smb.conf (echo SAMBAPASSWORD; echo SAMBAPASSWORD) | smbpasswd -sa root echo 'NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost *>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         DocumentRoot /var/www/         <Directory />                 Options FollowSymLinks                 AllowOverride None         </Directory>         <Directory /var/www/>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride None                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log         LogLevel warn         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined         ServerSignature On </VirtualHost>' > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default /etc/init.d/apache2 stop /etc/init.d/samba stop /etc/init.d/apache2 start /etc/init.d/samba start 

edit: add this to set your MySQL password

/etc/init.d/mysql stop echo 'UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MySQLPasswrod') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;' > /root/MySQLPassword mysqld_safe --init-file=/root/MySQLPassword & sleep 1 /etc/init.d/mysql stop sleep 1 /etc/init.d/mysql start 

end edit

This is a bit specailised but you get the idea, if you save this to a file (‘install’ for example) all you have to do is:

chmod +x install ./install 

Some of my apt-get commands are not necessary, because apt will automatically get the dependencies but I prefer to be specific, for my installs.