LAMP doesn't like me

[fears_bane]

Alrighty, so i spent the summer learning php and its interrelation to mysql. I have some cool little pages on there and want to get them accessible to the 24 computers running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS sitting in my classroom. I have read numerous times that all i need to do is type in the ip address and it will come up. I have followed 6 tutorials to their bloody and fruitless conclusion and figured I would ask here. I have no desire right now to get this stuff on the internet, a lan network is all i want as long as every comp can type http://localhost.mypagename.php and open the page i am gravy. I have tried to install lamp numerous times and it says that mysql apache and php are all present but I am using the 'server edition' so there is no gui and therefore i can't check to see the famous 'it works' screen. Hopefully I have not been too verbose.

Problem restated: setting up a server to serve a lan that will allow computers in class to open the files and then send information gathered from those files back to mysql serverside.

[Dapper Dan]

Hi fears_bane and welcome!

I love the CLI as much as anyone... (you have to when running CRUX ), but there is no dishonour in setting up LAMP with X windows. I followed this tutorial on regular Kubuntu (via links browser from another machine mind you), and everything is working swimmingly. I'm not ashamed to admit that Webmin is a really useful tool when running servers too. Besides, you can always set your machine up and disable X when you get it going the way you want. Hey... whatever gets the job done!

[fears_bane]

ok so i can get the Apache Mysql and PHP up as noted prior. The problem is allowing other comps to access the information in htdocs or whatever it is called in linux land