I have seen tutorials instructing beginners on the installation of the LAMP stack on Ubuntu. Most of these tutorials are too complicated for a beginner. The easiest way to install the LAMP stack on a non-production system is:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
Now navigate to "localhost"
in your preferred web browser. This location corresponds to "/var/www/html"
on your file-system. Utilizing the "chmod"
command, the file and directory permissions can be set depending on use cases. You can learn more about chmod here.
Try putting a PHP file in "/var/www/html"
with the name "test.php"
:
<?php echo "I installed the LAMP stack on Ubuntu!";
Now navigate to localhost/test.php
and "I installed the LAMP stack on Ubuntu!"
will be displayed on the screen.
You are now set to develop PHP applications!