masocha, what system do u use??
in some linux systems, setiing up a web server, especially apache in LAMP is easy... Hehe
Ya, i think you'd better to use ubuntu, it's easy... Just follow this step:
1. install apache on your system using this command
sudo apt-get install apache2
2. Restart your apache server
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
3. Install your php
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
4. After all those steps done you can now install MySQL server onto your system.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
5. You can also install phpmyadmin to make your work easier and configure it so can be called by typing
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
for setting the phpmyadmin you can follow this to edit the configuration of apache:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
and put this statement into that file.
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
OK, Hope this can help you...