Installing LAMPP

Question

I want to install the whole package of apache2, MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin at a time on my ubuntu 14.04. I want to install the package from terminal. How to do it?

Solution 1

You can accomplish this by simply typing two commands.

• sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
• sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

The first one will install apache, php, and mysql all at once. including all dependencies needed for phpmyadmin, and other web-apps. Then the 2nd will install & integrate phpmyadmin.

You will be prompted by both for setting up mysql credentials & giving such credentials for phpmyadmin.

Solution 2

Let me try and give you a good brief run down on how you can do this. Before starting do a system update:

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade or

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

LAMP:

1. Linux:
   • installation of Ubuntu
2. Apache:
   • from the terminal run sudo apt-get install apache2 or sudo apt install apache2 if you installed Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.
   • to confirm apache is up and running:
     • open your browser of choice and go to this address in the address bar: localhost/ and if it's installed you should see the image below

3. Mysql:
   • From the terminal run sudo apt-get install mysql-server or sudo apt install mysql-server if you installed Ubuntu 16.04 or higher
   • Follow the terminal instruction to add a password
   • Secure the installation by running this after the complete install:
     • sudo mysql_secure_installation
4. php:
   • Install withsudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql
     • libapache2-mod-php allows apache parse php files
   • Run this sudo systemctl restart apache2 to restart apache so its incorporates php parsing functionality, then check if its running with the next step
   • sudo systemctl status apache2, you should see the image below if its running

• Now php has many more modules that you can install. To see these by running this in the terminal sudo apt-cache search php7 or sudo apt search php7

  5. phpmyadmin:
     • this can be installed with:
     • sudo apt install phpmyadmin or sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin. This will install the official package, but if this doesn't work get it from here.
     • extract and drop it in /var/www/html. Change the folder name to _phpmyadmin__ and access it from the browser like this localhost/phpmyadmin

Now lets test your apache to see its working:

• from terminal run: sudo vim /var/www/html/info.php, and put this in that file, or use nano if you prefer!

  <?php echo phpinfo(); ?>

Open a browser and put this [localhost/info.php] into your address bar and should see something like this:

Note: You can tweak your apache, mysql and php to suite your needs. This by no means all there is to setting up LAMP stack on your Ubuntu but its a start.

Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04

Comments

[Mostafiz Ur Rahman]

Thank you. It is easier. But I installed taskel first. As I didn't get this answer then.

[PauloBueno]

As in Feb,2020, (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) everything is working fine with a few caveats: In step 3 the installation DOES NOT asks for a password, so I recommend to follow these instructions. And in step 4 the php-mcrypt is deprecated and I simply remove it (there are some workarounds, but for now I just bypass it). And finally, if you'd like to use the gui to create files at var/www/ I recommend read this. gl hf