LAMP PHP 8.x Installation in Ubuntu 20.04 – Step-by-step

Installing

3. 3. Installing LAMP

   To install LAMP PHP 8.x on Linux Ubuntu 20.04
   First, to Search for the latest PHP 8 release:

   apt search php8.

   Now run the following command for the actual default setup:

   sudo apt install apache2 php8.4 mysql-server mysql-client php8.4-mysql

   Alternatively, replace MySQL with MariaDB:

   Enable MariaDB Repo for Ubuntu

   MariaDB Repository for Ubuntu

   Install with:

   sudo apt install apache2 php8.4 mariadb-server mariadb-client php8.4-mysql

   Verify PHP installation with:

   php -v

4. 4. Searching PHP 8.x Extensions

   Search for available PHP 8.x extensions:

   sudo apt search php8.4

   Refine results using grep:

   sudo apt search php8.4 | grep [KEYWORD]

   Install useful modules for WordPress:

   sudo apt install php8.4-imagick php8.4-curl php8.4-gd php8.4-mbstring php8.4-xml php8.4-xmlrpc php8.4-soap php8.4-intl php8.4-zip

   

   To install multiple packages at once:

   sudo apt install php8.4-{curl,xml,imagick,mysql,fpm,bz2}

5. 5. Testing LAMP

   To test your LAMP web server installation, access the server’s document root:

   cd /var/www/html

   Create a PHP info file:

   sudo nano info.php

   For sudo issues, refer to: Enable sudo
   Add the following code:

   <?php
   phpinfo();
   ?>

   Ctrl+x to save and exit nano.

   Set www-data as the owner of the web server directory:

   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

   Then open your browser at:
   http://localhost/info.php
   
   
   You should see the PHP info page successfully.

   For creating an Apache 2 Virtual Host, see: GNU+Linux Apache2 VHost

   GNU/Linux Apache2 Virtual-Host Quick Start

   GNU/Linux Apache2 VHost