Running a local web server is no sweat. Since it's not served up live to the world, meaning that anybody could "surf" to your locally run web sites, you can relax a little with security. Leave defaults alone. However, should you decide to host your own web sites locally that the world may visit then you had better get your security kung-fu hat on. Here is another tutorial for setting up a web server on Etch that is OK to serve up beyond locally, however, please put your security hat on.

I run a server on a Debian Etch box. Simplest thing in the world to set up. Command line action as simple as cut and paste. For all of you following along, here is what I just did to get LAMP going locally on my laptop. Keep in mind that I will be removing all of this, I only just installed it in order to write this little ditty up for some friends.

# apt-get install phpmyadmin php5-gd php5-mcrypt php-pear mysql-server

You'll see results like the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5
  libapr1 libaprutil1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libgd2-xpm libltdl3
  libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libpq4 mysql-client-5.0
  mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql
Suggested packages:
  dbishell libgd-tools libcompress-zlib-perl tinyca php5-dev php4-dev
Recommended packages:
  apache2 httpd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5
  libapr1 libaprutil1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libgd2-xpm libltdl3
  libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libpq4 mysql-client-5.0
  mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 php-pear php5-cli php5-common
  php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql phpmyadmin
0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 126MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

The only configuration of files that I did was to

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

I searched for mysql by hitting ctrl+w. Then I un-commented

;extension=mysql.so
;extension=gd.so

both the mysql line and the gd line by deleting the semi-colons. Save and close the file and run

# /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

I next exited from my root terminal in order to change my admin password for mysql. I issued the following command:

$ mysqladmin -u root password [password] as a regular user.

Next up, I alt+tab'd to my open web browser, ctrl+n for a new tab and entered the address for the local default Apache2 web site: http://127.0.0.1.

There I was reading all about my new web server. To get to phpmyadmin just go there like this:

http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin

Cake.

Remember, this is local, just for you and your LAN if that's where you set this up. There are a whole mess of things to discuss further should you want a live web server or should you require troubleshooting. That's what the forum is for.

This a very simple, quick install. I use Joomla for a bunch of sites. In order for me to really use Joomla I have to install more than this simple tutorial covers. What we have here is just the tip of the iceberg.

--machiner   25 may 2007

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