How to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on Ubuntu Server

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) is an archetypal model of web service stacks, named as an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language. The LAMP components are largely interchangeable and not limited to the original selection. As a solution stack, LAMP is suitable for building dynamic web sites and web applications.

LAMP is quite widely used today. This article will guide you step by step to install LAMP on the Ubuntu server.

1. Install apache
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install apache2
2. Install mysql
   sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php-mysql
3. Set up MySQL
   sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

   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...

4. Install PHP
   sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php mcrypt
5. Add php to the index file list
   sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

   <IfModule mod_dir.c>
   
             DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
   
   </IfModule>

6. [Option] Install PHP modules
   PHP has many modules, to search all PHP modules, you can use the below command:
   php-cgi – server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
   php-cli – command-line interpreter for the php scripting language
   php-common – Common files for packages built from the php source
   php-curl – CURL module for php
   php-dbg – Debug symbols for php
   php-dev – Files for php module development
   php-gd – GD module for php
   php-gmp – GMP module for php
   php-ldap – LDAP module for php
   php-mysql – MySQL module for php
   php-odbc – ODBC module for php
   php-pgsql – PostgreSQL module for php
   php-pspell – pspell module for php
   php-recode – recode module for php
   php-snmp – SNMP module for php
   php-sqlite – SQLite module for php
   php-tidy – tidy module for php
   php-xmlrpc – XML-RPC module for php
   […]
   To install modules, simple type command:
   sudo apt-get install php_module_name
7. Now, Apache service is working