INSTALL LAMP IN UBUNTU SERVER 16.04

LAMP is a open sources packet software that use for building a powerfull web server.  lamp is consist of LINUX operating system, apache web server, mysql for saving data of web server, and php for processing dynamic content. now this article will help you to install lamp and cofigure it step by step. 

1. Install Software

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql

2. configure MySQL

sudo mysql_secure_installation

and follow the step below

first you will be asked for password of MySQL for root account  and configure setup "VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin".

Enter password for user root:

VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN can be used to test passwords

and improve security. It checks the strength of password

and allows the users to set only those passwords which are

secure enough. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin?

Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No:

next, you have to choose level password validation . as you can see from the information on your screen. There are 3 level password validation. Choose 2 for the strongest, 1 for the medium and 3 for the lowest

There are three levels of password validation policy:

LOW    Length >= 8

MEDIUM Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, and special characters

STRONG Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, special characters and dictionary file

Please enter 0 = LOW, 1 = MEDIUM and 2 = STRONG: 0

Okay. Type Y for the rest questions.  It will removed anonymous user, remove test database, disable remote login, and load these configuration.

3. Configure APACHE

Now we configure web apache server. Type this command below to open file “dir.conf”

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

Add index.php to the beginning of index files. The page should now look like this:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm

</IfModule>

4. Test PHP.

Enter the following command to create php file named info.php

sudo nano /var/www/info.php

add the following script :

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Save and exit, next, restart your apache server

sudo service apache2 restart

then access your info.php In your bowser with visiting the URLhttp://your_ip_address/info.php. if your info.php appear then you have succeed to install your LAMP