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This follows so closely on the heels of mastercomputers' tutorial about setting up a web server on a Red Hat-based GNU/Linux system because he used the term "Linux" to refer to the operating system as a whole, which raises my ire. I'm shaking my figurative fist at you, mastercomputers! My version of the tutorial will show how to set up a web server on a Debian-based GNU/Linux system. In the place of what is traditionally MySQL, I encourage people to start using MariaDB, because of a worry that Oracle is about to kill MySQL very soon. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL created by the original creator of MySQL. Many of Oracle's MySQL developers have already left to join the MariaDB folks (much like the Oracle OpenOffice.org developers left to work on LibreOffice). Anyway, here's my tutorial. Install Apache2 sudo apt-get install apache2 Install MariaDBUse the MariaDB repository setup page to determine the correct repository to add to your system. In this example, I'm setting up MariaDB on Debian Wheezy. Set up the repository sudo apt-get install python-software-propertiessudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xcbcb082a1bb943dbsudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/debian wheezy main' Update your apt sources and install MariaDB sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install mariadb-server Install PHP and the PHP module for Apache2 sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5