LAMP Install on Ubuntu – how to

Before we start with LAMP install, many will ask “What is LAMP?”.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, an open-source Web development platform, also called a Web stack, that uses Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as theRDBMS and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. Perl orPython is often substituted for PHP. And now when we answered that important question we can start with

LAMP Install – Ubuntu

  1. LINUX

    2. Since we already running Ubuntu, the linux part is taken care of.
    Before starting the installation, make sure your distribution is up to date so open terminal and run command:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

    whichdownloads the package lists from the repositories and “updates” them to get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies. It will do this for all repositories and PPAs.

  2. APACHE

    3. The Apache HTTP Server has been the most popular web server on the public Internet.
    To install apache, open terminal and type in this command:

    sudo apt-get install apache2

    To check if Apache is installed,Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/. You should see a message saying It works! or Apache2 Default page like in picture below

    apache

  3. MySQL

    4. MySQL is a powerful database management system used for organizing and retrieving data

    To install MySQL, open terminal and type in this command:

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server

  4. PHP

    5. To install PHP, open terminal and type in this command:

  5. sudo apt-get install php5 libapache

At the end of LAMP install you have to restart web server. Open terminal and type in this command:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And LAMP install is over! Now you can start your first project on your own web server. 🙂