How to install Lamp server on ubuntu 14.04

How to install LAMP server on Ubuntu 14.04

LAMP stack is nothing but a combination of opensource softwares to make a webserver . LAMP refers to the first letters of Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP .

1. Apache2 installation
2. Mysql installation
3. PHP installation
4. Testing all together

Apache2 installation :

Step 1 » Type the below command for installing apache 2 package from repository .

krizna@leela:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2

This command will install apache2 and its dependencies  .

Step 2 » After installationm, Add the following line “ServerName localhost” to the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file.
ServerName localhost

Step 3 » and restart apache service

krizna@leela:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Step 4 » Apache will start working with minimal configuration. Now Open your server-ip in the browser and You can see the apache ubuntu test page.( Default document root is located in this path /var/www/html )
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Mysql installation :

Step 5 » Issue the below command to install mysql server with dependencies.

krizna@leela:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Step 6 » During installation it will prompt for a new password for mysql root . Give some strong password and retype the same password for confirmation.
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Step 7 » After installation check the Database connection.

Check the service status .

krizna@leela:~# sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status
* /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.5.35, for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Server version 5.5.35-1ubuntu1
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 1 min 12 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 573 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 421 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 41 Queries per second avg: 7.958

Service is already up , Now Type this command to login
krizna@leela:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: ******
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 42
Server version: 5.5.35-1ubuntu1 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql>

Okay . Mysql server installation is over.

PHP installation :

Step 8 » Type the below command to install php5 .

krizna@leela:~$ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql

Step 9 » Create a php file and paste the below code into the file to show the php configuration . Goto the default apache root path /var/www/html . create a new file phpinfo.php  and paste the below code and save it.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>  

Step 10 » Now restart the apache2 service .

krizna@leela:~$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 11 » Now open the file in the browser ( Eg: http://yourip/phpinfo.php )
you can see the php information page as below.
and make sure you can see the mysql details in the php information page .
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We have sucessfully configured Apache2 , mysql and php .

Testing All together :

We need to test mysql database connectivity using PHP code .
Step 12 » create a new file dbtest.php in the root path (/var/www/html) and paste the below code . kindly replace “password” with your mysql root password provided during mysql installation .

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo "Congrats! connection established successfully";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>

Step 13 » open the file in your browser ( http://yourip/dbtest.php ). Now you could see the page like below.
Install lamp server ubuntu 14.04
Good luck

Also see
Setup LAMP server on ubuntu 18.04

7 Comments

  1. Very good article! I followed your instructions and all three components were installed correctly and my final dbtest was successful. Thanks for writing this 🙂

  2. Very good article! I followed your instructions and all three components were installed correctly and my final dbtest was successful. Thanks for writing this 🙂

  3. Thanks very much. This is an excellent howto. No problems installing localhost on my ubuntu 14.04 platform. I will check out your other howtos.

  4. Thanks for the tutorial, it’s quite clear. However I keep running into a problem. At Step 11 when I open the location the browser doesn’t seem to execute the file. Instead I see the php code in the browser window. I redid the steps very carefully over and over again but I can’t seem to find where I went wrong… =(

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