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Until quite recently I was working on Windows XP, when I had this urge to shift to Ubuntu once again. I got hold of wubi for Intrepid and my system was running the gnome in another 5 minutes.

Now while I was in windows, I had a wamp server installed. The first thing I set myself to do was to install the LAMP, and reconfigure the system to include the wamp www directory as the default directory instead of the /var/www. Here is what I did -

• Installed SSH client (so that I could connect remotely to my Ubuntu) : sudo apt-get install ssh
• Install the mysql-server : sudo apt-get install mysql-server
• Install the apache2 webserver : sudo apt-get install apache2
• Install php5 : sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
• Install php5-mysql support : sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
• Restart the apache2 webserver : sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
• Install phpmyadmin : sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

And it was done. The LAMP installed. Not to configure my dafault directory

• I navigated to/etc/apache2/sites-available
• Made a backup of the default file : sudo cp default default.bk
• Edited the default file : sudo vi default
• I changed the default document root to the www directory created by my wamp server

Yay, my site was up and running. When I navigate to http://localhost I could see the wamp index.html. I clicked on phpmyadmin and it worked. The phpmyadmin that I installed on Ubuntu was presented. It’s almost like having installed wamp server on Ubuntu.

But I would like to make a few ponts over here :

• I do not yet know how to add more than one directory to the default directory list. Will do that.

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