How to install LAMP stack on your Ubuntu Shell?

Looking to host a webpage or a website? This tutorial will guide you to install LAMP on your Ubuntu Shell.

LAMP stack - is an open-source web development platform that uses:
• Linux - Operating System
• Apache - HTTP Server
• MySQL - RDBMS/Database
• PHP - Object-oriented scripting language

The installation has to be done by a user with sudo access or root privileges.

Let's first add the PHP 8 PPA repository and re-synchronize the package index
files from their source:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

Install Apache:

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

Install MySQL:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server php8.0-mysql -y

Install PHP:

sudo apt-get install php8.0 -y 

Installation is completed, we just need to restart our Apache web server:

sudo service apache2 restart

To verify LAMP installation, open the following page with any available web browser:

http://*Shell_dedicated_IP*/index.html
or
http://localhost

You should see a similar output:

To verify PHP installation, you may create a PHP INFO test page inside /var/www/html
directory with the following command:

$ echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sudo tee /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

PHP is working properly if you see the below page:

We hope this article helped you set up LAMP on your Ubuntu Shell!