All great websites have a great server behind them. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up a dedicated web server (with Apache, MySQL, and PHP)
using that old computer you have lying around the house and some free software.
1. A Quick Overview
In this tutorial, we are aiming to accomplish several things:
- We’re going to install the Ubuntu Server operating system. I commonly use Ubuntu because of its ease of use and
simple administration. It also has a rather large and extremely active community behind it, which makes getting
support a breeze.
- We’re going to install an OpenSSH server. This allows you to administer your server from remote computers.
- A LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack is going to be installed. This provides the backbone that will run
your web site. Apache is the industry standard web server on Unix-based operating systems; it’s what
