How to Install Lamp (Linux Apache MySql PHP) on Ubuntu

LAMP is group of open source software used to make a webserver, LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySql PHP.

How to Install on Ubuntu

Step I:

Apache is a open source software, 50% of the world web servers runs Apache

To Install Apache, Open terminal and type or copy these commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2

after installation to check Apache is installed, Open your browser and type localhost or your IP address (eg. http://123.24.42.81). the page should display the text " it works!"

Step II:

MySQL is database management system used to organizing and retrieving data

To install MYSQL, open terminal or copy paste these commands

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

At the time of installing, MySQL will ask you to set a root password, type your root password or you can set the password later, it is very easy to set the password later from MySQL shell.

After MySQL installed, we should activate it with this command:

sudo mysql_install_db

Finish up by running the MySQL script:

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

the terminal prompt will ask you for current root password

type it in.

Enter current password for root (enter for none):
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

and terminal ask you if you want to change the root password, select N and move on to next steps

now say YES to all the options, and last MySQL will reload and make new changes

By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them.  This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother.  You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y                                          
 ... Success!

Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.  This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
... Success!

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access.  This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
 - Dropping test database...
 ... Success!
 - Removing privileges on test database...
 ... Success!

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y
 ... Success!

Cleaning up...

Step III:

PHP is an open source web script language used to build dynamic webpages.

to install PHP, open terminal or copy paste these commands

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

After you answer YES to the terminal twice, PHP will install itself.

Now, add php to the directory index its very usefull.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

Add index.php to the beginning of index files.

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

          DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm

</IfModule>

Now, Install all PHP Modules, PHP has a variety of usefull libraries and modules

apt-cache search php5-

Terminal will display all possible PHP Modules

php5-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
php5-cli - command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language
php5-common - Common files for packages built from the php5 source
php5-curl - CURL module for php5
php5-dbg - Debug symbols for PHP5
php5-dev - Files for PHP5 module development
php5-gd - GD module for php5
php5-gmp - GMP module for php5
php5-ldap - LDAP module for php5
php5-mysql - MySQL module for php5
php5-odbc - ODBC module for php5
php5-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for php5
php5-pspell - pspell module for php5
php5-recode - recode module for php5
php5-snmp - SNMP module for php5
php5-sqlite - SQLite module for php5
php5-tidy - tidy module for php5
php5-xmlrpc - XML-RPC module for php5
php5-xsl - XSL module for php5
php5-adodb - Extension optimising the ADOdb database abstraction library
php5-auth-pam - A PHP5 extension for PAM authentication
[...]

Now, Install all modules, by typing or copy command

sudo apt-get install name of the module

you can install after wards when you need any modules.

Congratulations! you now have LAMP on you ubuntu

Step IV:

See PHP on you Server

we can still take a look and see the components of php info page

to set this up, first you need to create a new file

sudo nano /var/www/info.php

Add this line in your page:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

and now Save and Exit. and open http://localhost/info.php to check.

after all Restart Apache so that all new changes take effect

sudo service apache2 restart

I have seen so many users used phpmyadmin

you can also install phpmyadmin by typing or copying these commands

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadmin

if you want http://localhost/phpmyadmin to work then type this code

cd /var/www
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin phpmyadmin

then goto http://localhost/phpmyadmin, or by your IP (eg. http://xx.xx.xx.xx/phpmyadmin).


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