How to install LAMP setup on Ubuntu 21

To Install Lamp on Ubuntu 21.04

Introduction

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php. Which is widely used for web hosting , All LAMP stacks are open source and free to use, it is also very secured one

Login as Root User

linuxhelp@linuxhelp:~$ sudo -s

Changing the directory

root@linuxhelp:/home/linuxhelp# cd /

Install apache webserver

root@linuxhelp:/# apt install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1
  libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1
  libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
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Install the Mariadb

root@linuxhelp:/# apt install mariadb*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'mariadb-tokudb-engine-5.5' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-server-core-5.5' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-plugin-spider' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-server' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-plugin-s3' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-galera-server-5.5' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-test' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-plugin-mroonga' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-client-core-5.5' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-connect-engine-10.0' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-connect-engine-10.1' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.0' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.1' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-gssapi-server-10.1' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-gssapi-server-10.2' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-test-data-10.0' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-testsuite-10.1' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-testsuite-10.3' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-rocksdb-engine-10.2' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-rocksdb-engine-10.3' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-plugin-rocksdb' for glob 'mariadb*'
Note, selecting 'mariadb-test-10.0' for glob 'mariadb*'

Configure the database by using following command

root@linuxhelp:/# mysql_secure_installation

Install the php

root@linuxhelp:/# apt install php libapache2-mod-php
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php7.4 php-common php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-json
  php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline
Suggested packages:
  php-pear
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php libapache2-mod-php7.4 php php-common php7.4 php7.4-cli
  php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 254 not upgraded.
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Create an php file

root@linuxhelp:/# vi /var/www/html/index.php

Opening by ping the IP in browser

With this method, the installation of LAMP setup is comes to end.