Step OneInstall Apache

Apache is a free open source software which runs over 50% of the worlds web servers.
To install apache, open terminal and type in these commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2

Thats it. To check if Apache is installed, direct your browser to your servers IP address
(eg. http://12.34.56.789). The page should display the words It works!" like this.

How to Find your Servers IP address

You can run the following command to reveal your servers IP address.
ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }'

Step TwoInstall MySQL

MySQL is a powerful database management system used for organizing and retrieving
data
To install MySQL, open terminal and type in these commands:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

During the installation, MySQL will ask you to set a root password. If you miss the
chance to set the password while the program is installing, it is very easy to set the
password later from within the MySQL shell.
Once you have installed MySQL, we should activate it with this command:
sudo mysql_install_db

Finish up by running the MySQL set up script:

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

The prompt will ask you for your current root password.
Type it in.
Enter current password for root (enter for none):

OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Then the prompt will ask you if you want to change the root password.
Go ahead and choose N and move on to the next steps.
Its easiest just to say Yes to all the options. At the end, MySQL will reload and
implement the new changes.
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them.

This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation

go a bit smoother.

You should remove them before moving into a

production environment.

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y

... Success!

Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.

This

ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y

... Success!

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access.

This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed

before moving into a production environment.

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y

- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

... Success!

Cleaning up...

Once you're done with that you can finish up by installing PHP.

Step ThreeInstall PHP

PHP is an open source web scripting language that is widely use to build dynamic
webpages.
To install PHP, open terminal and type in this command.
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

After you answer yes to the prompt twice, PHP will install itself.
It may also be useful to add php to the directory index, to serve the relevant php index
files:
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>

PHP Modules
PHP also has a variety of useful libraries and modules that you can add onto your
virtual server. You can see the libraries that are available.
apt-cache search php5-

Terminal will then display the list of possible modules. The beginning looks like this:
php5-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
php5-cli - command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language
php5-common - Common files for packages built from the php5 source
php5-curl - CURL module for php5
php5-dbg - Debug symbols for PHP5
php5-dev - Files for PHP5 module development
php5-gd - GD module for php5
php5-gmp - GMP module for php5
php5-ldap - LDAP module for php5
php5-mysql - MySQL module for php5
php5-odbc - ODBC module for php5
php5-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for php5
php5-pspell - pspell module for php5
php5-recode - recode module for php5
php5-snmp - SNMP module for php5

php5-sqlite - SQLite module for php5

php5-tidy - tidy module for php5
php5-xmlrpc - XML-RPC module for php5
php5-xsl - XSL module for php5
php5-adodb - Extension optimising the ADOdb database abstraction library
php5-auth-pam - A PHP5 extension for PAM authentication
[...]

Once you decide to install the module, type:

sudo apt-get install name of the module

You can install multiple libraries at once by separating the name of each module with a
space.
Congratulations! You now have LAMP stack on your droplet!

Step FourRESULTS: See PHP on your Server

Although LAMP is installed, we can still take a look and see the components online by
creating a quick php info page
To set this up, first create a new file:
sudo nano /var/www/info.php

Add in the following line:

<?php
phpinfo();

?>

Then Save and Exit.

Restart apache so that all of the changes take effect:
sudo service apache2 restart

Finish up by visiting your php info page (make sure you replace the example ip address
with your correct one): http://12.34.56.789/info.php

Step One Install phpMyAdmin

To get started, we can simply install phpMyAdmin from the default Ubuntu repositories.
We can do this by updating our local package index and then using the apt packaging
system to pull down the files and install them on our system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

This will ask you a few questions in order to configure your installation correctly.

For the server selection, choose apache2. Note: If you do not hit "SPACE" to select
Apache, the installer will not move the necessary files during installation. Hit "SPACE",
"TAB", and then "ENTER" to select Apache.

Select yes when asked whether to use dbconfig-common to set up the database

You will be prompted for your database administrator's password

You will then be asked to choose and confirm a password for

the phpMyAdmin application itself

The installation process actually adds the phpMyAdmin Apache configuration file into
the/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/ directory, where it is automatically read.
The only thing we need to do is explicitly enable the php5-mcrypt extension, which we
can do by typing:

sudo php5enmod mcrypt

Afterwards, you'll need to restart Apache for your changes to be recognized:

sudo service apache2 restart

You can now access the web interface by visiting your server's domain name or public
IP address followed by /phpmyadmin:
http://domain_name_or_IP/phpmyadmin