Install a LAMP stack manually on Lightsail instance with this handy guide by our experts.

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How to install a LAMP stack manually on Lightsail instance

This in-depth guide, by our skilled Support Engineers, is your answer to installing a LAMP manually on your Lightsail instance.

Moreover, this handy guide covers major Linux distributions under the OS Only option in Amazon Lightsail:

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Debian 10 and 9
• CentOS 8 and 7

How to install Apache

• Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04, Debian 9 and 10
  Here, we run the commands below to install the Apache webserver:

  sudo apt update -y
  sudo apt install apache2 -y
• CentOS 7 and CentOS 8
  We have to run these commands to install the Apache webserver:

  sudo yum update -y
  sudo yum install httpd wget -y
  sudo systemctl enable httpd
  sudo systemctl start httpd

How to install PHP

• Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04
  Run these commands to install PHP:

  sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
  sudo apt-get update -y
  sudo apt install php8.0 php8.0-{fpm,mysql,curl,gd,mbstring,mysql,xml,mcrypt,zip,ldap} libapache2-mod-php8.0 -y
• Debian 10 and Debian 9
  Here we execute the following commands to install PHP:

  sudo apt install -y gnupg2 ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common
  wget -qO - https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install php8.0 php8.0-{fpm,mysql,curl,gd,mbstring,mysql,xml,mcrypt,zip,ldap} libapache2-mod-php8.0 -y
• CentOS 7
  Run these commands to install PHP:

  sudo yum install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
  sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
  sudo yum install -y yum-utils
  sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80
  sudo yum install php php-{fpm,mysql,curl,gd,mbstring,mysql,xml,mcrypt,zip,ldap} -y
• CentOS 8
  Here we execute the following commands to install PHP:

  sudo dnf install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
  sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf module enable php:remi-8.0 -y
  sudo yum install php php-{fpm,mysql,curl,gd,mbstring,mysql,xml,mcrypt,zip,ldap} -y

How to enable the PHP-FPM module

• Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04, Debian 10 and 9
  Here we execute the following commands to install PHP-FPM:

  sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
  sudo a2enconf php8.0-fpm
  sudo a2dismod php8.0
  sudo systemctl enable php8.0-fpm
  sudo service apache2 restart;sudo service php8.0-fpm restart

• CentOS 7
  1. First, update the Apache configuration to utilize mpm_event_module rather than mpm_prefork_module:

     [centos@ip ~]# sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf 
     # LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
     LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so
  2. Then, backup the present PHP configuration file in Apache. Next, create a new configuration file with the following content:

     sudo mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf_bak
     sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

     <Files “.user.ini”>

     Require all denied

     Order allow,deny
     Deny from all
     Satisfy All

     SetHandler “proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000”

     AddType text/html .php
     DirectoryIndex index.php
  3. Next, restart PHP-FPM and Apache for the changes to come into effect:

     sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
     sudo systemctl restart httpd
• CentOS 8
  1. First, we will update the PHP=FPM configuration file in order for the service to listen to the port rather than the socket:

     sudo sed 's#listen = /run/php-fpm/www.sock#listen = 127.0.0.1:9000#g' -i /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
  2. Next, create a new PHP configuration file after taking a backup of the file in Apache:

     sudo mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf_bak
     sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
     
     <Files ".user.ini">
         
             Require all denied
         
         
             Order allow,deny
             Deny from all
             Satisfy All
         
     
     
     
         SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000"
     
     
     AddType text/html .php
     DirectoryIndex index.php
  3. Next, we will run the command seen below to permit the Apache to make outbound connections:

     sudo /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
  4. Finally, restart PHP=FPM and Apache to allow the changes to take effect:

     sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
     sudo systemctl restart httpd

How to install MariaDB

We can opt to install MariaDB version 10.5 with the help of the MariaDB repository directly:

1. 1. First, we have to execute the following command and add the MariaDB yum repository:

      curl -LsS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash -s -- --mariadb-server-version="mariadb-10.5"
   2. Then we have to install the MariaDB package:

      For Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 10, and Debian 9:

      sudo apt install mariadb-server -y

      For CentOS 8 and CentOS 7:

      sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client -y
      sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
      sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
   3. Next, we execute the command below and complete the MariaDB secure installation, and set the root password:

      sudo mysql_secure_installation

   4. After that, we have to set a password for the root account

How to add permissions for your website’s folders to the default user

• Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04
  1. First, we execute this command:

     sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
  2. Then, we have to log out and log back in. This enables us to pick up the new group. After that, we have to verify the membership by running “group”:

     sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www
     sudo chmod 2775 /var/www
     find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;
     find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;

• Debian 10 and 9
  1. First, we execute this command:

     sudo usermod -a -G www-data admin
  2. Then, we have to log out and log back in. This enables us to pick up the new group. After that, we have to verify the membership by running “group”:

     sudo chown -R admin:www-data /var/www
     sudo chmod 2775 /var/www
     find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;
     find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;
• CentOS 8 and 7
  1. First, we execute this command:

     sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
  2. Then, we have to log out and log back in. This enables us to pick up the new group. After that, we have to verify the membership by running “group”:

     sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www
     sudo chmod 2775 /var/www
     find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;
     find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;

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Conclusion

In brief, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to install a LAMP stack manually on Lightsail instance.