How To Install LAMP In Ubuntu 18.04. In this tutorial, We’ll show you how to install Lamp on Ubuntu 18.04 server. The LAMP is stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP. It is an open source platform and works on the Linux operating system. It uses Apache web server, MySQL relational database management system, and PHP object-oriented scripting language.
Before we install Lamp in ubuntu 18.04. We will know about Lamp.
Lamp
L => Linux operating system
A => Apache web server
M => MySQL relational database management system
P => PHP object-oriented scripting language
Before Install the Lamp on Ubuntu. First update the apt package :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Install apache on ubuntu using this below command :
sudo apt-get install apache2
Check Apache Status :
After the Apache installation process, the web server service should be started automatically, You can check the Apache service status :
sudo systemctl status apache2
Output
apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
`-apache2-systemd.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-12-31 05:18:45 PDT; 2min 30s ago
Main PID: 3143 (apache2)
Tasks: 55 (limit: 2321)
CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
|-3143 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
|-3144 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
`-3145 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
Manage the Apache services using these below commands :
To start Apache
sudo systemctl start apache2
To Stop Apache
sudo systemctl stop apache2
Restart Apache
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Disable Apache
sudo systemctl disable apache2
sudo apt install mysql-server
Secure MySQL Server Installation
Default MySQL is insecure , we need to secure the database server.
After installation is complete, the mysql_secure_installation
utility runs.
Run the below command and answer the few questions based on your environment requirements.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Install PHP with Exetension
sudo apt-get install php7.2
sudo apt-get install php7.2-<extension-name>
See example below
sudo apt-get install php7.2-fpm php7.2-curl php7.2-mysql \ php7.2-xml php7.2-zip php7.2-gd
Use the below command to check the PHP version installed on your server :
php -v
Finally, we need to restart the Apache Web Server :
sudo systemctl restart apache2
In this article, we have successfully install LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04.
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