How to Install LAMP on Ubuntu 15.04 (Part 2)

How to Install LAMP on Ubuntu 15.04 (Part 2)

CHUONG K. NGUYEN – BSc., MCSEx2, MCSAx2, MCP, MCTS, MCITP, CCNA

How to install LAMP on Ubuntu 15.04 (Part 1)

In this guide I will show you how to install LAMP on an existing Ubuntu 15.04 server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. (Nowaday, many people have moved to MariaDB instead of MySQL.)

After having Ubuntu 15.04 installed, we need to update, upgrade and remove uncessary services. Components will be downloaded and installed on the system. Unecessary software will be removed.

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get autoremove

In my case, there is nothing updated, nothing ugraded and nothing removed. This is because I just performed these tasks when I installed the server.

If any component was installed you are probably asked to restart the server.

Apache Installation

apt-get install apache2

Start Apache2 service

service apache2 start

At this point the web server is up and operational. Use a browser to test the web site using your web server IP address. You should see the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page coming up.

Installing PHP as well as Modules

PHP has lots of modules which we can utilize for our web server. Here we will install PHP and a few frequently used modules.

apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-snmp php5-mcrypt php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc libapache2-mod-php5

When prompted, type Y to continue. This installation takes about a minute or two depending on your Internet connection speed.

Create the file phpinfo.php under /var/www/html

vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Type the following contents

Open the browser and browse to http://192.168.1.5/phpinfo.php. The PHP Version information page should show up. This is indicative that PHP is functioning.