How to install LAMP on AWS EC2 instance

We learning how to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on AWS EC2 instance with Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

Step 1. Connect to Instance

Connect to SSH with a key through your terminal, replace your key and IP/DNS.

$ ssh -i /your-key.pem ubuntu@192.168.0.1

Step 2. Install Apache

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apache2

To verify that Apache has been installed, we write the IP or DNS of our instance in the url of our browser.

http://your_server_IP_address

We should see a screen like this:

Step 3. Install MySQL

$ sudo apt install mysql-server

Step 4. Install PHP

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

Step 5. Verify that PHP is installed

In our terminal we run the following command to create and edit the info.php file

$ sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php