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Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu

The acronym of LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It’s straight forward to install LAMP on Ubuntu.

To install apache:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2

To install MySQL:

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

During the installation, MySQL will ask you to set a root password. If you miss the chance to set the password while the program is installing, it is very easy to set the password later from within the MySQL shell.

Once you have installed MySQL, we should activate it with this command:

sudo mysql_install_db

Finish up by running the MySQL set up script:

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

The prompt will ask you for your current root password. Then the prompt will ask you if you want to change the root password. Go ahead and choose N and move on to the next steps.

It’s easiest just to say Yes to all the options. At the end, MySQL will reload and implement the new changes.

Now, to install PHP:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

Then restart Apache.

sudo service apache2 restart

Install PHPMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin apache2-utils

Restart Apache.

sudo service apache2 restart

Install PHP and curl

sudo apt-get -y install php5-cli curl

Install mcrypt and php5-mcrypt

sudo apt-get -y install mcrypt php5-mcrypt

Enable php5-mcrypt

sudo php5enmod mcrypt

Install SQLite

sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite

Enable htaccess in Apache

First enable rewrite using this command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then restart apache2:

sudo service apache2 restart

Then go into the sites-available folder:

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

Edit the file named default.conf and change AllowOverride none to AllowOverride All. Or, if the Directory part is missing, then put this after DocumentRoot line :

<Directory "/var/www/html">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

This will make .htaccess work in your server VPS.

This worked on an Ubuntu 14.04.3.