How to install Linux Apache, MySQL with PHPMYADMIN, PHP (LAMP) on Ubuntu

step 1: Update your system.

sudo apt-get update

step 2: Install Tasksel

sudo apt-get -y install tasksel

step 3: Install LAMP server

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

#aptitude failed error?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

step 4: Install PHPMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

step 5: if mysql version >= 5.7 and mysql only work with ROOT user.

DROP USER 'root'@'localhost';
CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

step 6: Now set group www-data to the html folder.

sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/html

step 7: Make it writable for the group

sudo chmod 775 /var/www/html

step 8: Set GID to www-data for all sub-folders

sudo chmod g+s /var/www/html

step 9: Add your username (username replace with your system username) to www-data group

sudo usermod -a -G www-data username

step 10: Finally change ownership to username

sudo chown username /var/www/html

step 11: Check your PHP version using.

php -v

step 12: Now install PHP modules.

apt-get install php-pear php7.3-curl php7.3-dev php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-zip php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml

step 13: Now restart apache server

sudo service apache2 restart