Set up a production LAMP server in a clean Ubuntu install

First you need to download Apache:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Restart Apache:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now download PHP:

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

Restart Apache

Now download MySQL:

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

Restart Apache

Download PHPMyAdmin:

$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Restart Apache

if, on pointing your browser to http://yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin you get a 404 not found error message, you need to add the following text at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (after all other configuration lines).

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Restart Apache

Download APC (php opcode cache)

$ sudo apt-get install php-pear
$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev
$ sudo apt-get install apache2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install make
$ sudo pecl install apc 

Now you need to add the following text to /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/apc.ini (if the file isn't already there, create it):

extension=apc.so

Restart Apache

troubleshooting

• Include: command not found.

This is not a command. It's text you need to add to the file.