# How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu 12.04

#### About Lemp

LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since the virtual private server is already running Ubuntu, the linux part is taken care of. Here is how to install the rest.

#### If any existing lamp installation & you need to upgrade your old server, uninstall all things & backup first all databases & files.

* Unistall php, apache2

````
sudo apt-get purge php5*
sudo apt-get purge apache2* or sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
````

* Install apache 2.4 (why 2.4 cause laravel 5.3 needs to 2.4 & latest php version >= 5.6.4)

* Update apt & software-properties

````
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
````
* add ondrej PPA for apache 2.4 version:
````
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2
````
* update & install apache
````
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
````
* check apache version
````
apache2 -v
## apache 2.4
````