This tutorial will explains basic step how to install
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Perl) server in ubuntu server 14.04 LTS. The acronym
LAMP is derived from first letters of Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python.
- Linux is a Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating
system. Ubuntu Server is one of popular Linux distributions dedicated
for server environment.
- Apache is a HTTP web server, the most popular in
use. It serves webpages when they’re requested by the web browsers. When
you type an URL on your web server and press Enter, the pages you see
on screen is most likely served by Apache webserver.
- MySQL is a database management system now owned by
Oracle Corporation. It stores and organizes references to the
information the webserver needs.
- PHP is a reflective programming language, which makes it possible for all these different parts to work together.
This tutorial assumes that you have
already installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 correctly in you machine, if you
need guide basic install ubuntu server 14.04 you can read here.
Install and Configure Apache2
First, update ubuntu repository with the following command :
sudo apt-get update
Install Apache2 and all related dependencies with these command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils
Once apache2 installed, modify file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf, with your favorite editor. I’ll used nano command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
You should see the following line:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
Change to:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
Restart apache2 with following command:
sudo service apache2 restart
Now you can check out apache2 is working or not by visiting your
server’s public IP address or domain from your web browser (
http://ip_address or http://domain.com). If it work you will see the
default Ubuntu 14.04 Apache web page, which is there for informational
and testing purposes. It should look something like this:
Install and Configure MySQL Server
To install Mysql Server package and all related package dependencies run the followong command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
During the installation, you’ll be asked to setup the MySQL root user
password. This is an administrative account in MySQL that has increased
privileges, Enter the password and select [OK].
After the mysql server installation complete, you need to run some
command for tell MySQL to create database directory structure where it
will store its information. You can do this by typing the following
command:
sudo mysql_install_db
Run the following command, It will be ask you to enter the password
for the MySQL root account. Next, it will ask you if you want to change
that password. If you are happy with your current password, type “n” for
“no”. It also ask you to remove some sample users and databases,
disable remote root logins, and load these new rules so that MySQL
immediately respects the changes you have made.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Install and Configure PHP5
To install PHP5 package and all related package dependencies run the
following command below. by default ubuntu server 14.04 will installed
PHP 5.5
sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php-pear php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-curl
Testing PHP5 and MySQL
In order to test PHP script you need to create simple PHP script in
directory /var/www/html. in this case I’ll create phpinfo.php:
sudo touch /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
Add the following line into file /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save and exit ( Ctrl + O, Ctrl + X)
Test the php script you have made from web browser by typing in
address bar http://ip_address/phpinfo.php. It will appear like
screenshot on below.
This page basically gives you information about your server from the
perspective of PHP. It is useful for debugging and to ensure that your
settings are being applied correctly.
Testing MySQL connection with PHP script. Create the
file /var/www/html/phpmysql.php then add the following line on below.
Replace the
password with your mysql root password have made during mysql installation:
sudo touch /var/www/html/phpmysql.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/phpmysql.php
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo "Congrats! connection established successfully";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>
Now open web browser and navigate to http://ip_address/phpmysql.php, The page should be appear like screenshot on below:
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