How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu

#### About Lemp
LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since the virtual private server is already running Ubuntu, the linux part is taken care of. Here is how to install the rest.

#### If any existing lamp installation & you need to upgrade your old server, uninstall all things & backup first all databases & files.

````
sudo apt-get purge php5*
sudo apt-get purge apache2* or sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
````

####  Install apache 2.4 (why 2.4 cause laravel 5.3 needs to 2.4 & latest php version >= 5.6.4)

* Update apt & software-properties

````
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
````
* add ondrej PPA for apache 2.4 version:
````
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2
````
* update & install apache
````
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
````
* check apache version
````
apache2 -v
## apache 2.4
````

####  Install Mysql & PHP5.6-mysql(Note: if you've already installed mysql-server, you don't need to run command of mysql-server. you have to run only php5.6-mysql)
````
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql
````

####  Install latest PHP 5.6
* add ondrej PPA for PHP
````
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
````

* Update & install php 5.6 & libapache mode for php
````
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5.6 libapache2-mod-php5.6
````

* Restart apache2 service & check version of php
````
sudo service apache2 restart
php -v
````
#### Install PHP Extension required for Laravel
````
sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl
sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5.6-openssl
sudo apt-get install php5.6-gd
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
````

#### PHP Modules
````
apt-cache search php5.6-
/*
php-radius - radius client library for PHP
php-http - PECL HTTP module for PHP Extended HTTP Support
php-uploadprogress - file upload progress tracking extension for PHP
php-yaml - YAML-1.1 parser and emitter for PHP
php-mongodb - MongoDB driver for PHP
php5.6-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
php5.6-cli - command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language
php5.6-phpdbg - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (PHPDBG binary)
php5.6-fpm - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary)
libphp5.6-embed - HTML-embedded scripting language (Embedded SAPI library)
php5.6-dev - Files for PHP5.6 module development
php5.6-common - documentation, examples and common module for PHP
php5.6-curl - CURL module for PHP
php5.6-gd - GD module for PHP
php5.6-imap - IMAP module for PHP
php5.6-intl - Internationalisation module for PHP
php5.6-ldap - LDAP module for PHP
php5.6-mysql - MySQL module for PHP
php5.6-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for PHP
php5.6-pspell - pspell module for PHP
php5.6-recode - recode module for PHP
php5.6-snmp - SNMP module for PHP
php5.6-sqlite3 - SQLite3 module for PHP
php5.6-sybase - Sybase module for PHP
php5.6-tidy - tidy module for PHP
php5.6-opcache - Zend OpCache module for PHP
php-apcu - APC User Cache for PHP
php-xdebug - Xdebug Module for PHP
php-imagick - Provides a wrapper to the ImageMagick library
php-ssh2 - Bindings for the libssh2 library
php5.6-json - JSON module for PHP
php-redis - PHP extension for interfacing with Redis
php-memcached - memcached extension module for PHP, uses libmemcached
php-amqp - AMQP extension for PHP
php5.6-bz2 - bzip2 module for PHP
php5.6-mcrypt - libmcrypt module for PHP
php5.6-odbc - ODBC module for PHP
php5.6-readline - readline module for PHP
php-rrd - PHP bindings to rrd tool system
php5.6-interbase - Interbase module for PHP
php5.6-xmlrpc - XMLRPC-EPI module for PHP
php5.6-enchant - Enchant module for PHP
php5.6-gmp - GMP module for PHP
php5.6-xsl - XSL module for PHP (dummy)
php-uuid - PHP UUID extension
php-memcache - memcache extension module for PHP
php-gmagick - Provides a wrapper to the GraphicsMagick library
php-zmq - ZeroMQ messaging bindings for PHP
php-igbinary - igbinary PHP serializer
php-msgpack - PHP extension for interfacing with MessagePack
php-geoip - GeoIP module for PHP
php5.6-bcmath - Bcmath module for PHP
php5.6-mbstring - MBSTRING module for PHP
php5.6-soap - SOAP module for PHP
php5.6-xml - DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, and XSL module for PHP
php5.6-zip - Zip module for PHP
php-tideways - Tideways PHP Profiler Extension
php-yac - YAC (Yet Another Cache) for PHP
php-mailparse - Email message manipulation for PHP
php-libsodium - PHP wrapper for the Sodium cryptographic library
php-oauth - OAuth 1.0 consumer and provider extension
php-gnupg - PHP wrapper around the gpgme library
php-propro - propro module for PHP
php-raphf - raphf module for PHP
php-stomp - Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (STOMP) client module for PHP
php-gearman - PHP wrapper to libgearman
php-xcache - fast, stable PHP opcode cacher
php-mongo - MongoDB database driver
php5.6-dba - DBA module for PHP
php-xhprof - Hierarchical Profiler for PHP 5.x
php-mysqlnd-ms - MySQL replication and load balancing module for PHP
*/

````

#### Install phpmyadmin with 2 way
* First way directly install from apt
````
# install phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

# add line to apache2.conf
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

#restart apache2
sudo service apache2 restart
````

* Second way (wget phpmyadmin tar/gZip file from PHPMyadmin [Downloads](https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/))
````
cd /usr/share

wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.6.4/phpMyAdmin-4.6.4-all-languages.tar.gz

mv phpMyAdmin-4.6.4-all-languages phpmyadmin

ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/
````

#### Service start,stop & restart
````
#start service
sudo service apache2 start

#stop service
sudo service apache2 stop

#restart service
sudo service apache2 restart

##Restart from init.d 
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
````