- To test the working of apache, go to your web browser and type ‘http://localhost/’ in the address bar.
- It will show you the following screen:
- To test the working of php,Firstly change the permission of root files and folders. For this Type the following command in terminal
gksudo nautilus
- After this it ask you for your system password and then Root-filebrowser dialog box will be openFileSystem>usr>share
- Choose file system. Then choose folder var and then www.
- Now right click on the www folder. Choose the Permissions. Now change the permission of owner to administrative user.
- Now type in terminal:
cd /var/www
- It will change your directory to /var/www. Now type
vi testing.php
- It will create testing.php file in your /var/www/ folder and in that file , write
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
- Save the file.After that type the following command in Terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
- Now go to your browser and type ‘http://localhost/testing.php’ , it will show the following screen
- During this a problem can occur like on writing http://localhost/phpmyadmin it shows Not found. In this case phpmyadmin is in location /usr/share/phpmyadmin rather then in /var/www/phpmyadmin. To solve this problem copy folder phpmyadmin from FileSystem>usr>share to Filesystem>var>www.
- To check phpmyadmin working, type ‘http://localhost/phpmyadmin/’ in your browser,it will show the following screen
- Now login with username ‘root’ and enter the password you created earlier,and you will get this screen
- Now LAMP is completely installed.
Parveen Kaur 