LAMP on ubutnu 9.10 and above.

L------Linux Operation System.
A------Web Server.
M----- Relational Database Management System.
P------Object-Oriented Scripting Language.

# sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server apache2
or
# sudo apt-get install lamp-server

Then in browser (check apache)
http://localhost

For Mysql
/var/www$ mysql -u root -P
passwd-----

mysql > exit

For PHP
$ sudo vi /var/www/info.php

add
<?php
phpinfo( );
?>
save and exit
Then restart apache.
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.

Then in browser
http://localhost or IP /info.php

To full manage the LAMP Server Database, install phpmyadmin
# sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

To log in to phpmyadmin, open the browser and type

http://localhost/phpmyadmin or http://ip/phpmyadmin