How to install & Configure LAMP STACK in Ubuntu

How to install & Configure LAMP STACK in Ubuntu

In this article we will learn how to install LAMP STACK in UBUNTU 16.04. where we need to install 4 packages which is mentioned below. Please follow all the steps and get it done by this article and let us know if you are facing any kinds of issue during installation of LAMP stack in Ubuntu.


We need to install 4 packages to install lamp stack:-

1.Apache
2.My SQL
3.PHP
4.PHP My admin


 STEP : 1

Before that we need to update and install the new version of packages in Ubuntu 16.04

Use this command for Update

1. sudo apt-get update

and

2. sudo apt-get upgrade

STEP :2

So now we can install the Apache packages in ubuntu 16.04 by
using this command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

we can verify through following command:

sudo dpkg -l apache2

Now open the browser and check wether apache 2 is working by entering http://localhost

STEP 3:

So now we can install the php packages in ubuntu 16.04 by
using the command:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php php

we can verify through following command:

sudo dpkg -l php

now restart the apache2 service

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

So now we can test wether php is working fine for that we can create a file under Document Root of apache i.e. “/var/www/html” and then enter <?php phpinfo(); ?>  to check php information.

Using this command we create a file

sudo nano /var/www/html/file.php

and enter this code in this file i.e

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

And check through by entering the “http://localhost/file.php” in your browser wether it is working or not

STEP 4:
So now we can install the mysql packages in ubuntu 16.04 by

Using this command :

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

we can verify through following command:

sudo dpkg -l mysql-server

let’s check if mysql-server is working properly by creating a database

To login mysql-server as a user root:

mysql -u root -p

To create database

mysql> create database usersdb;
i.e :- CREATE DATABASE dbname;

To check the database list or not

mysql> show databases;

To exit for MySQL program type:-

/q & exit

STEP 5:

So now we can install the phpmyadmin packages in ubuntu 16.04 by
using the command:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Select apache2 and then press OK to proceed the installation process


we can verify through following command:

sudo dpkg -l phpmyadmin

As shown on above snapshot phpmyadmin package installed.


We can open phpmyadmin web access by using URL “http://localhost/phpmyadmin” but before that we have to configure “php.ini” and “apache.conf” file, so Follow the below steps to do the same.

edit the “php.ini” and search for extension=msql.so

To edit the php.ini file:

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini 

To find out particular word in nano editor

ctrl+w

After uncomment extension=msql. so it would look like this as shown above on the snapshot, then save php.ini file.

Now edit the “apache2.conf” file by using below command.

To edit the apache2.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf 

Then go to the end of the configuration file and add the below line.

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

To restart apache :

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart