How to make your own web server!

There are a few ways you can make a basic lamp Linux Apache MySQL PHP server. First you have deiced if you want use an old machine or dual boot with current one. If you want just try this for fun I would choose to run a virtual machine on your computer. If you are new to Linux I would recommend using Ubuntu. I feel its the easiest to learn and has the most support/information on the web. Once you get your machine setup and install Ubuntu. Last time I tried this I used 12.04 So you got Ubuntu 12.04 up and running now to make it a LAMP. Open the terminal and past this code to get it up to date: sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgarde Once you do that you will be able to install LAMP server server with this command: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ Once you do that you should be able to go to http://localhost in a browser and then see the Glorious It works! Thats is all you need to if you want to just play with html and css. If you want try WordPress, you will want to install phpm
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