In this tutorial we’re going to give you a step-by-step guide, on how to install LAMP server on Ubuntu. For those who don’t quite understand what a LAMP server is you can check here. Supposedly you should be sure that you understand also how to create a website from back end, and also you should know how to install a software by using either the Software Center either the Terminal. If you don’t, you can learn here for the Terminal and here for the Software Center.
So, lets get started:
How to install Lamp On Ubuntu
Step 1: Install Apache
First we start by installing Apache. In order to do that Metapackage apache2 should be installed. You can either search for it in Software Center either by running the following command
Step 2: Install MySQL
Now we’re going to install MySQL. Again what you need to do is to install the Metapachage mysql-server. Once more, you can search in Software Center for it, or run the following command on terminal
Step 3: Install PHP
We’ll proceed by installing php. To do that you first need to install the following metapackages: php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Search it in Software Centre or run the following command on terminal:
Step 4: Restart Server
After MySQL and PHP are both installed, your server should restart Apache automaticaly. In case that doesn’t happen, type the following command:
Step 5: Check Apache
Then in order to check if everything is ok, open a web browser and navigate to your http://localhost/ . If everything is done correctly you should see a message that says “it works!”
Step 6: Check PHP
In the last step we need to check PHP. You can do it either by running any .php file from /var/www/ either by executing the following command