Install LAMP in Ubuntu

LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySql and PHP. Basically LAMP consists of all the applications that are required to create and run a website.

• For hosting a website, you will need Webserver, which here is Apache.
• To store the data, we need a database. Here it is MySql.
• To run server side scripts we need a scripting language. Here it is PHP.

So basically, installing LAMP is installing and configuring Apache, MySql and PHP. Web-hosting companies, generally use Linux and they have LAMP installed in those servers. So if you have the html pages, you can install LAMP in Ubuntu, do some coding in PHP, configure it with MySql and host your own website for free.
Lets we will see how to setup your own LAMP server in Ubuntu.

Lets see how to install components of LAMP one by one.

1. Apache
   – apt-get install apache2
   To install Apache, open terminal and write
   

   Install Apache

   – service apache2 restart
   Once apache is installed start/restart the service.

   

   Restart Apache

   
   

   -Check if apache is working, by entering ‘localhost‘ in your address bar of browser.

   

   Check apache

2. PHP
   
   apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 
   To install PHP, we also need to install its a package named ‘labapache-mod-php5’ with it.
   

   Install php

   
   

   service apache2 restart
   After installing restart the server, restart apache service.

   

   Restart apache

   – Now, we will test the installed PHP. So create a file in ‘/var/www‘ with any name but having the extension ‘.php’. For example, ‘testing.php‘

   

   Create a php file for testing.

   –  <?php phpinfo(); ?>
   Inside the php file, copy paste this code.

   

   Enter php code.

   – Open your browser and enter localhost/’filename’
   here, localhost/testing.php
   

   

   Run php code.

3. MySql
   
   – apt-get install mysql-server
   To installMySql database, install packagemysql-server
   

   Install mysql server

   – It will ask for a root password. You can leave it blank, but its strongly recommended that you enter a root password. Remember this password.
   

   

   Enter root password.

   vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf    (Optional)
   If you want other computer in your network, to view the MySql server that you created, open my.cnf file
   and insert your IP address in ‘bind-address’

   

   Open my.cnf file

   

   Enter your IP address in ‘bind-address’

   – mysql -u root -p 
   To use MySql, enter this in terminal.
   Here ‘-u’ points to the user, as in this case it is root, and ‘-p’ is used to give the root password.
   Enter the password.

   

   Check MySql

    

4. phpMyAdmin (Optional)
   – Earlier in LAMP, we used to install php, but recently industries are switching to phpMyAdmin because of its easy configuration and simple yet interactivve Graphical User Inter. If you wish to install phpMyAdmin, follow these steps :- apt-get install phpmyadmin libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
   
   

   Install phpMyAdmin

   – It will then ask you which web server are you using? Select your webserver.

   

   Select your web-server.

   – Install database.
   If you don’t have a database, you can create one in phpMyAdmin and set the Database Administrator password as well as MySql application password.
   If you wish to configure the database on you own, select No.

   

   Configure database.

   

   Select yes if you want to create your db

   

   Enter database administrator’s password.

   

   Enter Mysql password.

   

   – Test phpMyAdmin by going to ‘localhost/phpmyadmin’

   

   PhpMyAdmin login

   

   phpMyAdmin