LAMP is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.
1. Update your system
First we are making sure you are up to date by running:
~$ sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
2. Installing Apache2
Now that we have the L in place, it’s time to install the A.
~$ sudo apt-get install apache2
You can verify if that worked by entering your server’s IP into a browser, you should see something along those lines:
3. Installing MySQL
~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
During the installation, you will be prompted to enter the MySQL root password. Make sure to write that down.
Now we are also going to secure our installation:
~$ sudo mysql_secure_installation
Enter the root password you entered before.
Now you get asked a couple of questions, answer as below:
Enter current password for root (enter for none): Enter your root password
Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? N
Change the password for root? [Y/n] N
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] {ENTER}
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] {ENTER}
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] {ENTER}
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] {ENTER}
That’s it. Let’s continue with PHP.
4. Installing PHP
And last but not least, the P.
For PHP we need to install slightly more, PHP with all it’s dependencies:
~$ sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-pear php-imagick php-imap php-mcrypt php-memcache php-pspell php-recode php-sqlite3 php-tidy php-xmlrpc php-xsl php-mbstring php-gettext
Let’s restart apache2:
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
5. Testing the configuration and wrapping up
To test your configuration, we first need to create the phpinfo.php file.
~$ sudo nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
Paste the following text into it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save with CTRL+O and exit with CTRL+X.
If you now open http://YOURSERVERIP/phpinfo.php in your web browser, you should see the PHP configuration page:
Congradulation!