Tutorial: How to setup LAMP on Ubuntu hosted on AWS

Codementor Dominic Myers has been developing with Javascript for over seven years and is passionate about Javascript and PHP. This simple step-by-step guide was originally posted on his blog.

I’ve done this more times than I care to remember lately so I’m going to remember it here.

Boot up an AWS Ubuntu Server 14.04 instance, use MobaXterm to log in with ubuntu as the username then:

sudo apt-get update

Don’t worry about grub – it’s not used as far as I’m aware

sudo apt-get upgrade

Install LAMP (don’t forget a password for root on MySQL)

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

The web-root directory is /var/www/html so we’ll give ourselves permission to play there using (adapted from Ulyssesonline):

sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod 775 /var/www/html
sudo chmod g+s /var/www/html
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
sudo chown ubuntu /var/www/html/

We’ll also need curl:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

and Mcrypt:

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 reload

Sort out Mod-rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Move to web-root

cd /var/www/html/

And you’re done!

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