Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Apache, MySQL, PHP on Ubuntu 14.04 the faster way.  

Installing lamp-server. 

Installing the lamp-server on Ubuntu only require you to execute few commands because Ubuntu apt-get tool comes with lamp-server package.

First, we need to update Ubuntu apt-get database package. Use the following command. 

 # sudo apt-get update 

Now the package database is synced with apt-get. Use the command below to install the lamp-server package. 

 # sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ 

The installation process will prompt you to enter the password for MySQL database. Enter the password and continue.