LAMP installation from source code ( tarball) on linux

Tested with ubuntu 12.04 LTS  with mysql version 5.1.71, php 5.3.25  and apache 2.2.25
bellow packages must be installed on ubuntu
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Installing MySQL 5.1
Download MySQL source tarballs Open a terminal and login Extract the source to some folder(say ‘/usr/src/mysql’).
$ sudo mkdir /usr/src/mysql
$ sudo cp mysql-VERSION.tar.gz /usr/src/mysql
$ cd /usr/src/mysql
$ tar -xvf mysql-VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd mysql-VERSION
For added security we will create a new user called ‘mysql’ and use this user while running MySQL.
$ sudo groupadd mysql
$ sudo useradd -g mysql mysql
Lets compile
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
$ make
$ make install
configure MySQL.
$ cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
$ cd /usr/local/mysql
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/mysql/var
$ bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
$ chown -R root.mysql .
$ chown -R mysql lib
Start MySQL
$ bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
For testing the installation give command
$/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
This will bring mysql prompt mysql>
quit
Installing Apache 2.2
download the source extract to /usr/src/httpd.
$ mkdir /usr/src/httpd
$ cp httpd-VERSION.tar.gz /usr/src/httpd
$ cd /usr/src/httpd
$ tar -xvf httpd-VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd httpd-VERSION
Lets compile it
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-mime-magic --enable-expires \
--enable-headers --enable-ssl --enable-http --enable-info --enable-dir \
--enable-rewrite –enable-so
$ make
$ make install
Run apache service
Installing PHP 5
download PHP 5, extract to /usr/src/php5.
$ mkdir /usr/src/php5
$ cp php-VERSION.tar.gz /usr/src/php5
$ cd /usr/src/php5
$ tar -xvf php-VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd php-VERSION
Lets configure

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs 

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock --with-mcrypt
  --with-mhash--with-curl --with-curlwrappers --disable-cgi --enable-mbstring=all
  --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf  --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --enable-magic-quotes

cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/php5/lib
Configuring Apache for php
By default the document root folder is /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
you can change it
open the configuration file /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
change values
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
With
DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
to
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var
find a commented line AddHandler type-map var
uncomment the line and add belloe line bellow to above line
AddHandler php5-script php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Start Apache
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
test php
create a new file in document root folder named index.php and insert bellow lines inside that file
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
save it. And open browser give url as http://localhost
php configuration page should be opened
Now your LAMP installed and configured