How to Install LAMP PHP 7 on Linux Mint 17 LTS Easy Guide

June 25, 2018 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

LAMP PHP 7 Linux Mint 17 Installation Guide

How to Install LAMP PHP 7 on Linux Mint 17 LTS GNU/Linux desktop/server.

First, to Install LAMP PHP 7 for Linux Mint you have to Setup the Linux Mint PHP 7 Repository.

And LAMP is de facto Web Development Standard. Today, the products that make up the LAMP stack are included by default in nearly all GNU/Linux distributions.

Finally, thanks to the new Zend Engine 3.0, your PHP 7 apps see up to 2x Faster performance and 50% better Memory consumption than PHP 5.x.

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Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
How to Install PHP 7.0 on Linux Mint 17.

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Then to Install the LAMP Web Server.
```
sudo apt install apache2 php7.0 mysql-server php7.0-mysql
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
And when Prompted Setup the MySQL Admin Password.
Next to Start Apache Server.
```
sudo service apache2 start
```

Finally, to Test LAMP WebServer Installation
Access the Server document’s location:
```
cd /var/www/html
```
Create a PHP Info file:
```
sudo nano info.php
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
And Append:
```
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
```
Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano Editor ;)
Set the www-data as User and Group:
```
sudo chown www-data:www-data info.php
```
Then Open on Browser the URL:
http://localhost/info.php
In case Replace “localhost” with your Server IP in the above URL.

You should Successfully see the PHP Info notice similar to here above :)