A quick install guid for php and MySQL on your server

First install apache2 server

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Install mysql-server 

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server 

here we will be prompt for root user password i always user root for development you also can leave blank for no password

$ sudo apt-get install php5-adodb php5-dev php5-gpib php5-lasso php5-memcached php5-pgsql php5-snmp php5-symfony php5-xmlrpc php5-auth-pam php5-enchant php5-idn php5-ldap php5-mhash php5-ps php5-sqlite php5-symfony1.0 php5-xsl php5-cgi php5-exactimage php5-imagick php5-librdf php5-ming php5-pspell php5-tidy php5-cli php5-ffmpeg php5-imap php5-mapscript php5-mssql php5-radius php5-sqlrelay php5-uuid php5-common php5-gd php5-interbase php5-mysql php5-recode php5-suhosin php5-xapian php5-curl php5-geoip php5-intl php5-mcrypt php5-remctl php5-svn php5-xcache php5-dbg php5-gmp php5-json php5-memcache php5-odbc php5-sasl php5-sybase php5-xdebug

this is it you have php5 and mysql installed