Installing Apache PHP MySQL on Ubuntu 18.04

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  Posted by Sharad Jaiswal

  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