The latest major release of PHP version 7.0 has been released with lots of speed optimizations and security. So you should try this version for your development. This tutorial will help you to install PHP 7.0, Apache >= 2.4.17, & MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 15.10, 15.04 & 14.04 LTS release. To setup LAMP stack on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, visit our new tutorial below.
HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server. Apache is the most commonly used Web server on Linux systems. Web servers are used to serve Web pages requested by client computers. The Apache2 web server is available in Ubuntu Linux. To install Apache2: At a terminal prompt enter the following command: sudo apt install apache2.
Install PHP 7
First, install python-software-properties package on your system which provides add-apt-repository command then use the following set of commands to add PPA for PHP 7 in your Ubuntu system and install it.
Install Apache 2.4
After successful installation, let’s begin installing Apache 2.4. Use the following set of commands to install Apache2 on your Ubuntu system available in default apt repositories.
Install MySQL 5.6
Use the following commands to install or upgrade MySQL 5.6 on your Ubuntu systems. At the last update of this tutorial MySQL, 5.6.27 is latest available MySQL version series of MySQL 5.6.X.
Install Other Requirements
You may also need to install modules like PHP7-MySQL, libapache2-mod-php7.0 etc based on your application requirements. Use the following command to find our available php 7 modules.
Above command will list all available PHP7 modules for installation, Let’s begin installation of modules.
Verify Setup
Finally verify installation of PHP7 with Apache2. Let’s create a file info.php on website document root using following content.
Now browse this file in web browser. It will so all the details about versions and installation.