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This tutorial exists for these OS versions

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf)

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Preliminary Note

Installing MariaDB as MySQL replacement

Install Apache 2.4

Install PHP 7

Test PHP and get details about your PHP installation

Get MySQL / MariaDB support in PHP

Install the APCu PHP cache to speed up PHP

Enablethe SSL website in apache

Install phpMyAdmin

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Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server tutorial with Apache 2.4,

PHP 7 and MariaDB (instead of MySQL)

LAMP is short for Linux,

Apache, MySQL, PHP. This

tutorial shows how you can

install an Apache 2 web

server on an Ubuntu 16.04

(Xenial Xerus) server with

PHP 7 (mod_php) and

MySQL support.

Additionally, I will installPHPMyAdmin to make

MySQL administration

easier. A LAMP setup is the

perfect basis for CMS

systems like Joomla,

Wordpress or Drupal.

Preliminary Note

In this tutorial, I will use the hostname server1.example.comwith the IP address

192.168.1.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where

appropriate.

I recommend to use a minimal Ubuntu server setup as basis for the tutorial, that can be a virtual-

or root server image with an Ubuntu 16.04 minimal install from a web hosting company or you use

our minimal server tutorialto install a server from scratch.

I'm running all the steps in this tutorial with root privileges, so make sure you're logged in as root:

sudo su

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Installing MariaDB as

MySQL replacement

We will install MariaDB instead of MySQL.MariaDB is a MySQL fork maintained by the

original MySQL developer Monty Widenius.

MariaDB is compatible with MySQL and

provides interesting new features and speed

improvements when compared to MySQL.

Run the following command to install

MariaDB-server and client:

apt-get -y install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Now we set a root password for MariaDB.

mysql_secure_installation

You will be asked these questions:

Enter current password for root (enter for none):

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To leave the MariaDB shell, enter the command "quit" and press enter.

Install Apache 2.4

Apache 2 is available as an Ubuntu package, therefore we can install it like this:

apt-get -y install apache2

Now direct your browser to http://192.168.1.100, and you should see the Apache2 default

page (It works!):

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The document root of the apache default vhost is /var/www/html on Ubuntu and the main

configuration file is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. The configuration system is fully

documented in /usr/share/doc/apache2/README.Debian.gz.

Install PHP 7

We can install PHP 7 and the Apache PHP module as follows:

apt-get -y install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

Then restart Apache:

systemctl restart apache2

Test PHP and get details about your PHP installation

The document root of the default web site is /var/www/html. We will now create a small PHP file

(info.php) in that directory and call it in a browser. The file will display lots of useful details aboutour PHP installation, such as the installed PHP version.

nano /var/www/html/info.php

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Then change the owner of the info.php file to the www-data user and group.

chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/info.php

Now we call that file in a browser (e.g. http://192.168.1.100/info.php):

As you see, PHP 7.0 is working, and it's working through theApache 2.0 Handler, as shown in

the Server API line. If you scroll further down, you will see all modules that are already enabled

in PHP5. MySQL is not listed there which means we don't have MySQL / MariaDB support in PHP

yet.

Get MySQL / MariaDB support in PHP

To get MySQL support in PHP, we can install thephp7.0-mysql package. It's a good idea to

install some other PHP modules as well as you might need them for your applications. You can

search for available PHP modules like this:

apt-cache search php7.0

Pick the ones you need and install them like this:

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apt-get -y install php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php-pear php-imagick php7.0-imap php7.0-mcrypt php-memcache php7.0-pspell php7.0-recode php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-tidy php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-xsl php7.0-mbstring php-gettext

Now restart Apache2:

systemctl restart apache2

PHP 7 has now MySQL / MariaDB support as shown in phpinfo() above.

Install the APCu PHP cache to speed up PHP

APCu is a free PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It isstrongly recommended to have an Opcache installed to speed up your PHP page.

APCu can be installed as follows:

apt-get -y install php-apcu

Now restart Apache:

systemctl restart apache2

Now reload http://192.168.1.100/info.php in your browser and scroll down to the

modules section again. You should now find lots of new modules there:

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Please don't forget to delete the info.php file when you don't need it anymore as it provides

sensitive details of your server. Run the following command to delete the file.

rm -f /var/www/html/info.php

Enable the SSL website in

apache

SSL/ TLS is a security layer to encrypt the

connection between the web browser and

your server. Execute the following

commands on your server to enable https://

support. Run:

a2enmod ssla2ensite default-ssl

which enables the ssl module and adds a symlink in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled folder to the

file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf to include it into the active apache configuration.

Then restart apache to enable the new configuration:

systemctl restart apache2

Now test the SSL connection by opening https://192.168.1.100in a web browser.

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You will receive an SSL warning as the SSL certificate of the server is a "self-signed" SSL

certificate, this means that the browser does not trust this certificate by default and you have to

accept the security warning first. After accepting the warning, you will see the apache default page.

The closed "Green Lock" in front of the URL in the browser shows that the connection is

encrypted. To get rid of the SSL warning, replace the self-signed SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem with an officially signed SSL certificate from an SSL Authority.

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Install phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdminis a web interface through which you can manage your MySQL databases. It's a

good idea to install it:

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin

You will see the following questions:

Web server to configure automatically:

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Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/

PHP: http://www.php.net/

MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/MariaDB: https://mariadb.com/

Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/

phpMyAdmin: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

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Thank you so much. Works perfectly.

Nice work, complete and worked perfectly first time.

excellent work thanks

WWWonderfuull!!!! :-)

hello thanks for your tuto its works without problems thanks for the time spent by writting it its help

someone like me

Thank you very much! Vielen Dank fr Ihre Hilfe!

Thank you to you for this tutorial which is very easy to use.Unfortunately, I get an error in the last

step, after the installation of phpMyAdmin:The requested URL /phpmyadmin/ was not found on this

server.

The same error with 127.0.1/phpmyadmin or localhost/phpmyadmin.

I tried 3 times to uninstall and reinstall without success.Pity that Ubuntu does not offer a LAMP

package !Best regards

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From: till at:2016-05-15 08:16:41 Reply

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From: Clark at:2016-05-16 12:52:44 Reply

Try to run:

dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

and ensure that you select apache2 as config option. If no webserver config option is selected

during phpmyadmin installation, then the alias to accessphpmyadmin does not get added to the

apache config.

Hi

You probably missed the fact that you need to put a mark in the selection of apache2 in the

config. It definitely looks like it's selected it when the red box is in the selection thing, but unless

you press space it won't mark it as selected and it won't configure it it for apache. Hope that

makes sense?!

Cheers

Gareth

Followed the instructions with 16_04 and everything worked great up to phpMyAdmin.

I get the message:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using ? password: NO)

Uninstalled and tried again.

Still at a loss????

Other Ubuntu forum posts were for password: YES.

What should I check to solve this?

Installing APCu is not necessary.

As it states on http://php.net/manual/en/intro.apcu.php: "APCu is APC stripped of opcode caching."

And that's exactly why we install APCu. For Opcode caching, we have already "Opcache"

installed. But many software relies on the APC specific caching functions e.g. as a page cacheand that's why we install APCu on top of Opcache, it adds the APC functions to PHP when

Opcache is installed.

Thank you for the Tutorial! It is very awesome.

On Unbuntu 16.04 i get a failure message in /var/syslog if i take a closer look.

It seems that setting a secure password for root user will do create problems with mysqlcheck

because the password ist not updated in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf

For details see:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/772785/16-04-mariadb-error-in-syslog-mysqlcheck

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From: till at:2016-06-07 08:05:04 Reply

Thanks a lot spent hours trying to get my lamp running. I used mysql though :)

Thanks, this helped getting my new dev server up and running :)

I wonder if you can help. I have followed all you tutorial which is well presented. but I cannot access

phpmyadmin. I also did not know where to add the last line in you tutorial about unix_socket.

i have reinstalled the phpmyadmin and ensure apache2 is the server to use. i have checked and

included the following line to apache2.conf

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

but still no access. any help would be great thankyou

Thank you so much for this pice of cake!

Hi

I managed to install everything fine butwhen I tried to run info.php I got the following message:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80 Here are the document root file

permissions:root@Satellite-C660:/var/www/html# ls -ltotal 16-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 May 20

00:56 index.html-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 35 May 20 01:55 info.phproot@Satellite-

C660:/var/www/html#

Amazing! Thank you for this great tutorial.

excellent work thanks!

It says "ERROR 1046(3D000) at line 1: No database selected"

Not Found

The requested URL /phpmyadmin was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80 i have a problem to access on phpmyadmin i

don't know why, i've followed perfectly this tuto, please could you help me?

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Last updated: May 20, 2016

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You missed to enable phpmyadmin for apache (as described in the tutorail). You can redo the

step by running:

dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

then ensure that apache 2 is selected, there must show a cross for the apache option which gets

enabled with the whitespace key of your keyboard. If no cross is shown there, then apache is not

active for phpmyadmin and you wont be able to reach it then!

Hi,

Thanks, but Apache 2.4 is valuable with the event module enabled, and ISPConfig won't work with it

- it insists on using morker right? Can't you change this so we can use the much better event,

please? Thanks

ISPConfig does not depend on a specific apache mode, you just will not be able to use the

mod_php mode in ispconfig in worker mode.

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