Stop LAMP in 16.04

Question

I use LAMP for testing in local environment. I would like to try AMPPS, but LAMP is interfering with it. Is there any command to stop LAMP ? I would like to know how to start LAMP if my experience with AMPPS doesn't go as expected. Thanks.

Solution

Is there any command to stop LAMP ?

LAMP is not a service but an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. "Stopping LAMP" is not possible. You can stop 2 components of a LAMP stack: apache and mysql.

systemctl stop apache2.service
systemctl stop mysqld

and ...

systemctl is-enabled apache2.service
systemctl is-enabled mysqld

will show if it is running.

Linux and PHP are not services so do not need to be stopped.

I would like to know how to start LAMP if my experience with AMPPS doesn't go as expected.

Now for a problem or a misinterpretation from your side:

AMPPS is Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl, Python. I do not see any conflicts with LAMP: what you need to do is install Mongodb since AMPPS = LAMP + MongoDB. Perl, Python are native to Linux so all you are missing is MongoDB.

So

sudo apt install lamp-server^

and following the installation guide to MongoDB is installing AMPPS.