Sep 25

LAMP setup: Beginning

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How to install and configure Linux as a Web server? What are the main steps to go? This article should cover the main configuration steps for LAMP – Linux Apache MySQL PHP server.

  1. Which Linux distribution to install?
  2. Before installation
  3. Partitioning
  4. Package selection
  5. Set runlevel to 3
  6. Turn off needless services
  7. Firewall
  8. Forbid ssh access for root

1. Which Linux distribution to install?
List of Linux distributions are huge, please see Linux distribution list (after page load, click on Go button). Among that list, there exists several main Linux distributions (streams): RedHat, Debian, Suse, Ubuntu

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