Unbuntu desktop vs server

[krazieaznboi]

i was just wondering if the desktop verson have LAMP ready to go. i hate unbuntu server because its all black and white and looks like windows CMD.exe. is there a way to change server to a more friendly interface or does desktop also have LAMP ready to go?

 

[Greg]

does desktop also have LAMP ready to go?

Negative.

You could possibly just apt-get install everything in the Desktop version, but I'm not sure how you would set it up after that (if it needs extra setup). I've installed Apache, but nothing that has to do with MySQL or PHP. Sorry I can't be more help

 

[macdude425]

Really, GUI won't be much help if you're running LAMP. You'll find yourself doing 95% of the work in terminal.

My best advice is to sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin. Once that's done, do this.

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.350_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i webmin*deb

PHPMyAdmin provides a web frontend for MySQL - it's a lot better than MySQL Administrator. Webmin provides a web frontend for doing various tasks in Apache and PHP.

You can access them at http://localhost/phpmyadmin and cPanel®, respectively.

 

[krazieaznboi]

hmmmm. i might try that. do i use phpmyadmin the same as mysql?

 

[macdude425]

Basically, yeah. Since it's just a frontend to MySQL you don't have to enter all the fancy commands and whatnot.

 

[mBernhardt]

If you *absolutely* want a GUI on the server install. Just apt-get install KDE or Gnome or whichever.

Although I would agree that phpmyadmin is much better approach. Web interface for MySQL. I use it all the time.

When I started playing with my webservers I had GUI's installed. But I've now dropped the GUI and do everything through ssh/ftp. Definitely the way to go.