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Introductory

One is great for running your own websites, web development, creating a test environment, or practicing LAMP server quick compilation. However, to host client websites, I would prefer a more serious server configuration, such as a perfect server configuration for Debian to 8 or the Debian to 9.

In this description, we will install a very simple LAMP server on a Debian 8 (Jessie) operating system, which will include the following components:

• Apache 2.4.10
• MySQL 5.5.62
• PHP 5.6.x
• phpMyAdmin 4.2.12

All of these components are installed from the official Debian repositories in the versions indicated above. This way, you can update packages later centrally APT package manager It helps.

I will label this Debian 8 (Jessie) LAMP installation with the 1.0 version as we will be adding many more plugins later to make it even more useful and efficient.

System Update

First, log in to the server as root, then update the Debian packages as usual. apt-get command:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Installing MySQL

Install MySQL with the following command:

apt-get -y install mysql-server mysql-client

A dialog will appear during installation:

You will need to enter a root password and ask for confirmation.

Install Apache2

Install the Apache2 web server:

apt-get -y install apache2

You can also test how it works by typing in a browser to access the server (at my 192.168.1.120 IP address):

The default webroot directory is a / Var / www / html. So by default this is one virtualhoszt is configured during installation, whose configuration file is located here: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf.

The Apache2 configuration file is: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.

Installing PHP 5.6

The official PHP version shipped with Debian 8 is 5.6. To install it as an Apache module, use the following command:

apt-get -y install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Then restart Apache:

service apache2 restart

Then we can check PHP:

php --version

PHP 5.6.39-0+deb8u1 (cli) (built: Dec 16 2018 21:56:53) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

Database support and installation of additional modules

In order to use PHP from the database, we need to add another package:

apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

After installation, phpinfo already shows MySQL support:

php --info | grep "MySQL"

MySQL Support => enabled
PDO Driver for MySQL => enabled

Then look at the list of available PHP modules in apt-cache command:

apt-cache search php5-

Here is a long list of PHP plugins we need.

For general PHP usage, you should install this assembly:

apt-get -y install \
    php5-apcu \
    php5-imagick \
    php5-intl \
    php5-json \
    php5-memcache \
    php5-curl \
    php5-gd \
    php5-imap \
    php5-mcrypt \
    php5-pspell \
    php-pear \
    php5-xmlrpc

It includes everything important, but of course you can install any package you need.

Let's restart Apache again:

service apache2 restart

PHP control

Go to the webroot directory and create a php file:

cd /var/www/html/
nano phpinfo.php

Add the following content and save it:

<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

Next, load the file from the web root into your browser:

http://192.168.1.120/phpinfo.php

Installing phpMyAdmin

Only the good old phpMyAdmin is installed, which has a convenient interface to efficiently work with databases. To install it, enter the following command:

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin

Here are some questions you might encounter during installation:

We need to select a web server to host the phpMyAdmin interface:

Here, of course, select apache2 and then OK.

The following panel asks if you want to automatically configure your own phpMyAdmin database for you:

Select Yes.

You will then be prompted for the root password (specified during MySQL installation):

Give it to him.

You will then be prompted for another password that the phpMyAdmin control user will work with:

With this user, phpMyAdmin performs background maintenance, structure synchronization, etc., so we won't have to deal with it. This way we can press an enter, it will generate its own password for you.

We are done with that.

Enter phpMyAdmin with your browser a http://<IP-cím>/phpmyadmin Loading Address:

Since we only have root, let's log in with:

And a flawless phpMyAdmin interface welcomes us waiting for us to start working on it.

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Conclusion

So here is a completely basic LAMP web server that can now run any PHP and MySQL based website.

We will continue to work on it gradually to become a more useful and efficient server.