If you have a windows 64-bit version you can enjoy the Linux environment within windows. before you start to follow Step To Install Lamp Stack on Windows Subsystem. first read about how to enable subsystem for Linux in windows from here. LAMP stands for Linux Apache Mysql PHP or Perl or Python. For this article, we are going to install PHP.

Step One: update Linux

The first thing you need to do is update the Linux system which is also the first letter of the lamp, To update your Linux system. run the following command from your Linux terminal.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Step Two: Install Apache

The next letter of our Lamp stack is A which means Apache. Let’s install Apache from the command line. to install Apache run following command. to know more about apache click here.

Check Your Linux Version by running following command.

lsb_release -a

Now you are ready to install Apache. To install apache following code.

sudo apt-get install apache2

When you run the code System will ask you to type ‘Y‘ or ‘N‘ to install you need to type ‘Y‘ and press enter. After installation type the following command to start the apache server.

sudo service apache2 start

After Starting Apache go to your browser and write http://localhost on the address bar. If your browser shows a similar page like below then you have successfully installed the Apache.

Step Three: Install Mysql

The next step is to install Mysql for the database. Which is the Third letter of the lamp. Mysql is the most commonly used database for web applications. To install Mysql run following command.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

After successfully install Mysql then you need to start the msql server. To start the Mysql server run following command.

sudo service mysql start

Run Mysql secure installation

To run Mysql Secure installation run following command.

mysql_secure_installation

After running the command you will get some quest like the below answer as your choice.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): press Enter
Set root password? [Y/n] : press Enter
New password: yourpassword
Re-enter new password: yourpassword
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] : press Enter
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] : press Enter
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: press Enter
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] : press Enter

Go to Mysql by the following running following command

mysql -uroot -pyourpassword

Then select database mysql. To change the database paste following command and press enter.

use mysql;

run following command to set a null password for root and flush privileges.

update user set password='' where User='root';

flush privileges;

That’s it for the database !!

Step four: Install Php

to Install PHP run following command. During installation system will ask you to type ‘Y‘ or ‘N‘. You need to type ‘Y’ and press enter.

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

After the successful installation of PHP run the following command to check PHP version.

php -v

Your PHP version might be changed.

let’s test the PHP file in our server. to check the php file is running or not you need to create a .php extension file. To create the php file go run the following command.

sudo nano /var/www/html/index.php

press ctrl+x to save the file and press enter. then go to browser and type http;//localhost/index.php if there is no problem with your installation process the following page will display.

Now you have a complete environment for web application development. let me know if you encounter any issue during installation by commenting below. Happy Codding !!!

What Next

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