Installing Apache

sudo apt update

sudo apt install apache2

sudo ufw app list

sudo ufw allow in "Apache"

sudo ufw status

Check Website's URL via IP or DNS

Installing MySQL

sudo apt install mysql-server

sudo mysql

change “root” and “password” to whatever you want

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

exit

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Installing PHP

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

php -v

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

Change:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

To:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo systemctl status apache2

Installing other PHP Packages:

sudo apt install php-cli

Creating a Virtual Host for Apache

Change “your_domain” to the name you want

sudo mkdir /var/www/your_domain

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/your_domain

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf

Copy / Paste into blank file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName your_domain
    ServerAlias www.your_domain
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/your_domain
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

sudo a2ensite your_domain

sudo a2dissite 000-default

sudo apache2ctl configtest

sudo systemctl reload apache2

MySQL: Creating Users and Databases

Change “example_database”, “example_user” and “password” to whatever you want:

CREATE DATABASE example_database;

CREATE USER 'example_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

OPTIONAL - Change password of users:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

GRANT ALL ON example_database.* TO 'example_user'@'%';

exit

Credit to: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu