Basic (Ubuntu) LAMP stack setup (e.g. AWS)

setup.sh

#!/bin/bash   
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-dev mysql-server mysql-client qmail sendmail git-core subversion php-pear php5-mysql php5-curl libpcre3-dev libapache2-mod-php5 php-apc ack siege
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

#move APC.php into www
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/php-apc/apc.php.gz /var/www
sudo gzip -d /var/www/apc.php.gz
sudo vim /var/www/apc.php

#set up DB
mysql -u root
create database wordpress

#set permissions
chmod 0777 /var/www/

#grab WP
cd /var/www/
git clone https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git ./

#change permissions back, set owner so WP can write
chmod 0755 /var/www/
sudo chown -R www-data *

#allow rewrites
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
sudo service apache2 restart