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jerhinesmith
Asked: 2010-07-29 11:37:14 +0800 CST

What's the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack?

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I set up a new VPS instance of Ubuntu and am wondering what the easiest way is to get up and running with a basic LAMP stack (i.e. which packages are required, which configuration options need to be tweaked, if any, etc.).

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  1. Best Answer
    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

    It will install all the basic LAMP stack for you, prompt for MySQL root password, etc.

    More specifically it will install the following packages, and their dependencies.

    mysql-client-core-5.1 libwrap0 apache2  
libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 tcpd  
libapache2-mod-php5 apache2.2-common  
apache2-utils php5-common  
libaprutil1-ldap libaprutil1  
php5-mysql mysql-server-core-5.1  
libdbi-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-server  
apache2.2-bin libdbd-mysql-perl  
libhtml-template-perl  
libnet-daemon-perl libapr1  
mysql-server-5.1 libmysqlclient16  
ssl-cert apache2-mpm-prefork  
mysql-common mysql-client-5.1

    You might also want to take a peek at the Ubuntu Server Guide.

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  2. Install Apache

    sudo apt-get install apache2

    Install PHP

    sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

    As fo 16.04, the number is dropped:

    sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php

    Install MySQL

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server

    Install phpMyAdmin

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

    As with the PHP installation, in 16.04, the number is dropped:

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

    Combined installation

    16.04:

    sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php-mysql phpmyadmin

    Before 16.04:

    sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
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  3. The easiest way to install LAMP with PHPMyAdmin is using:

    sudo apt-get  install lamp-server^ phpmyadmin

    You don't even need to install taskel. More details can be found here, which gives this:

    To access PHPMyAdmin, open terminal & type:

    sudo -H gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    Add this line somewhere in that file:

    Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

    Finally restart Apache using:

    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    or

    sudo service apache2 restart
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  4. In Synaptic, click edit and mark by task. Then select LAMP Server and hit apply. Done.

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  5. I personally always find that installing the MySQL server and then PHPMyAdmin will install all the parts I need

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server

    (doing this first means it asks for the root account password to be set in advance)

    then

    sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

    It also gives you all the tools you'll need to administrate your MySQL server once it's installed :)

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  6. On commandline the simplest way is probably to use tasksel:

    sudo tasksel install lamp-server
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  7. The packages are apache2 and libapache2-mod-php5. php5 has a number of additional modules, you may need some. List them with apt-cache search php5

    Try revising your search or

    sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5

    Enable php5 with

    sudo a2enmod php5

    Restart apache

    sudo service apache2 restart

    The following wiki pages can be very helpful if you are starting with apache.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

    https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/C/httpd.html

    Note- This answer was migrated from elsewhere. To add mysql install

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql
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  8. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html

    It has LAMP as well as phpmyadmin integrated along with perl modules. Installs in /opt/lampp so can be installed/removed easily...

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  9. My Swiss Army knife command:

    sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server mysql-client libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php5-curl php5-cli php5-gd phpmyadmin
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  10. PHP7.0 is standard on Ubuntu 16+

    Heres the rundown:

    1 As Always

     sudo apt-get update

    2 Install Apache2

     sudo apt-get install apache2

    3 Install mysql-server

     sudo apt-get install mysql-server

    4 Install PHP 7.0

     sudo apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext php7.0-json php-xml
 sudo a2enmod php7.0

    5 Install phpmyadmin

     sudo apt-get install mcrypt
 sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

    Note, you'll need to add Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf to the file you'll open with the following command. (credit)

     sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    Optional

     sudo a2enmod rewrite
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