Installing Apache PHP MySQL on Ubuntu 18.04

Installing Apache PHP MySQL on Ubuntu 18.04

In this article, we are going to see how to create a LAMP stack environment on Ubuntu 18.04. Note: In order to run commands to install Lamp stack you need root access of server.

Step 1: Update your package manager

sudo apt-get update 

Step2: Install Apache Web server

• Install Apache: Run below command to Install Apache.

  sudo apt install apache2

• Start the Apache server: Run below command to start your server

  sudo service apache2 start
  

• Verify your installation You can verify your Apache installation by accessing your server IP on your web browsers. To obtain your server IP run below command:

   hostname -I 

  If you are seeing below page on your Url, then congrats you can successfully installed Apache web server on your Ubuntu server.

Step3: Installing Mysql

• Install Mysql server: Run below command to Install Mysql server on Ubuntu 18.04.

  sudo apt install mysql-server

• Securing your MySQL server: Secure your MySQL server by running below command and adding a password

  sudo mysql_secure_installation
  

• Testing your MySQL installation: Run below command to check MySQL is successfully configured

• sudo mysql -u root -p

    then enter the MySQL root password that you have set in above step.

Step4: Installing PHP

• Installing PHP: To install the latest version of PHP run below command on your terminal

  sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

• Install common PHP modules like bcmath,bz2,intl,gd,mbstring,zip. Run following commands to installsudo apt-get install php7.2-bcmath sudo apt-get install php7.2-bz2 sudo apt-get install php7.2-intl sudo apt-get install php7.2-gd sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring sudo apt-get install php7.2-zip

Step5: Schedule Start Mysql and Apache to start on system restart or boot.

		sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
		sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
	

That's It. Thanks for reading