If you’re a website designer who uses PHP, mySQL and Apache to build sites, you’ll need to install these applications on your computer in order to run your sites locally. I recently set up a Linux machine with Mint 17.3 and Mate, and found that the tutorial I followed was very helpful but missed out a few items which it took me some time to figure out.
What follows is a slightly modified tutorial which describes what worked for me. Continue reading Installing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) On Linux Mint 17.3