How to Install Apache, MySQL &

PHP on Ubuntu 20.04

Written by Rahul, Updated on April 28, 2020
 Apache, lamp, mysql, PHP, Ubuntu 20.04 

A combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP is known as LAMP

stack is the popular web hosting environment for the PHP based
application. Here Linux is an operating system, Apache is the
popular web server developed by Apache Foundation, MySQL is
relational database management system used for storing data and
PHP is the widely used programming language.

This article will help you to Install Apache 2.4, MySQL 8.0 and PHP
7.4 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) system. Let’s begin the
installation of LAMP stack your Ubuntu machine.

Prerequisites

You must have root or sudo privileged user access to your Ubuntu
20.04 system. Login to your Ubuntu system using GUI for Desktop
and SSH for the server edition.
ssh ubuntu@remote.host

Now upgrade current packages to latest version.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

Follow the initial server setup instruction to get ready your system

for working.

Step 1 – Installing PHP

PHP 7.4 packages are available under the default repositories on

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. To install PHP on your system, update apt index
and then install it on your system.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y php7.4

Also install additional PHP modules required for your application.

sudo apt install php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-json php7.4-mbstring

php7.4-xml

Step 2 – Installing Apache2

Next, you need to install Apache2 package on your system. The

Apache packages are are available under the default apt
repositories. You also need to install libapache2-mod-php module to
work PHP with Apache2.
Type below commands to install it:

sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.4

To create additional virtual hosts visit this tutorial.

Step 3 – Installing MySQL Server

The default Ubuntu 20.04 apt repositories contains MySQL server

8.0. Finally, install mysql-server packages for the MySQL database.
Also, install the php-mysql package to use MySQL support using
PHP. Use the following command to install it.

sudo apt install mysql-server php7.4-mysql

The installer will prompt for the root password, This password will
work for your MySQL root user. After installing MySQL execute the
following command for initial settings of MySQL server. You will see
that script will prompt for more settings than earlier MySQL versions
like password validation policy etc.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

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

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

New password:

Re-enter new password:

Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y

Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No)
: y
Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other
key for No) : y

Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for
No) : y

Step 4 – Installing phpMyAdmin (optional)

phpMyAdmin provides a user friendly web interface to manage

MySQL database server. You can install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu
20.04 by executing the following command:

sudo apt install phpmyadmin

The installation process will prompt to select web server to

configure. Select “Apache” as web server to run phpMyAdmin.

Next, this will prompt to create database for phpMyAdmin and

prompt for the administrative user access details. Complete all steps
to finish phpMyAdmin installation.

Step 5 – Manage Services

We have done with the installation of LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04

LTS system. The below commands will help you to start/stop or
restart Apache and MySQL services running with systemd.
To restart Apache and MySQL services, type:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart mysql

To start Apache and MySQL services, type:

sudo systemctl start apache2

sudo systemctl start mysql

To stop Apache and MySQL services, type:

sudo systemctl stop apache2

sudo systemctl stop mysql

Step 6 – Adjusting Firewall Rules

You can directly provide a service name like “http” or “https” to

allow. The firewalld uses /etc/services file to determine the
corresponding port of the service.

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Step 7 – Test Setup

After completing all setup. Let’s create a info.php file website

document root with following content.

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

Now access this file in web browser. You will see the screen like
below with all details of PHP on server.

Also access the phpMyAdmin

Congratulation’s! You have successfully configured web server on
your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. Read our next article Installing
LAMP Stack on RHEL based systems