Remove/re-install LAMP with current versions on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I'm having trouble with my LAMP stack since the Ubuntu 18.04 upgrade, so I'd like to just remove everything and start with a clean slate. I'm referring to the post entitled "How do I remove the LAMP stack so I can start over?" but, it appears to list older versions, PHP5 for example. I can't find documentation for anything more current and I have PHP 7.2.7 installed. Can I just substitute PHP7 in every instance of PHP5 and accomplish the same results, or is there more current and specific documentation that I haven't found. Thanks, in advance, for your assistance.

Solution

You can remove all the main stuff with these commands:

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server apache2 php
sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt autoclean

Then reinstall it the modern way using taskel:

sudo apt install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Comments

[Joshua Besneatte]

using an old guide and replacing php7 where neccessary should work for removing. once you have removed your lamp stack, install it following this guide: linuxconfig.org/…

[Joshua Besneatte]

posted it to an answer.... you might just use php instead of php7

[yourpalfranc]

OK. I was able to get back to this and follow your instructions. After the installation I rebooted the PC, and tried an Apache2 test with localhost/index.html. That looked fine. The PHP version showed 7.2.something. The one question I had was that when I logged into MySQL it accepted my OLD user/pass. Is that normal?? I was prepared complete install to be purged and to start over. Thanks for the steps.

[tgkprog]

What does it install, Mysql or MariaDb ? help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel#Task_descriptions says nothing much