Welcome to a new article on “Linux Dedicated Hosting” and how to host your own web server. This will be an ongoing series with the end goal being hosting your own domain (www.yoursitehere.com) and allowing others the ability to buy server space from you and make a profit online. The first step is to get our server operating system up and running and configuring the needed tools and updates, I will be using Ubuntu Linux 10.10 as my “OS” and will be setting up a LAMP server which stands for “Linux, Apache HTTP server, MySQL, and PHP ” so we first open the terminal “Cntrl + Alt + T” or you can go to “Applications >Accessories >Terminal” either way is fine. Once we have the terminal open we type in:
sudo apt-get install tasksel lamp=server
enter our password for root and press enter. After our packages have downloaded in the terminal we type sudo tasksel (tasksel package provides a simple interface for users who want to configure their system to perform a specific task. This program is used during the installation process, but users can also use tasksel at any time.) we choose LAMP server and enter.
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