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    How to Install LAMP Quickly using tasksel on Ubuntu and LinuxMint

    By RahulJune 7, 20194 Mins Read

    Tasksel is a command line utility for Debian based systems for installing a group of packages used for specific tasks. Tasksel provides a number of group packages to configure your server quickly like “LAMP Server”, “DNS Server”, “Mail Server” and “Tomcat Java server” etc. This article will help you to install tasksel and then install LAMP quickly using tasksel on Debian, Ubuntu and LinuxMint operating systems.

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    Install Tasksel

    The tasksel package is available under default repositories on most of Ubuntu, Debian, and LinuxMint operating systems. Use the following command to install it.

    sudo apt-get install tasksel
    

    Install LAMP using Tasksel

    After installing tasksel package on your system, let’s install LAMP setup on your Ubuntu, Debian, and LinuxMint system. Execute tasksel command in the terminal with sudo access to install lamp-server.

    sudo tasksel install lamp-server
    

    Setup will be completed within few minutes. The MySQL server is installed without any password configured for the root user. You can simply access MySQL without any password.

    Then execute the below command to set a new password and secure MySQL installation through a command line wizard.

    sudo mysql_secure_installation
    
    Follow instructions
    Securing the MySQL server deployment.
    
    Connecting to MySQL using a blank password.
    
    VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN can be used to test passwords
    and improve security. It checks the strength of password
    and allows the users to set only those passwords which are
    secure enough. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin?
    
    Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No: y
    
    There are three levels of password validation policy:
    
    LOW    Length >= 8
    MEDIUM Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, and special characters
    STRONG Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, special characters and dictionary file
    
    Please enter 0 = LOW, 1 = MEDIUM and 2 = STRONG: 1
    Please set the password for root here.
    
    New password: **********
    Re-enter new password: **********
    
    Estimated strength of the password: 100
    Do you wish to continue with the password provided?(Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
    By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user,
    allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have
    a user account created for them. This is intended only for
    testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother.
    You should remove them before moving into a production
    environment.
    
    Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
    Success.
    
    Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from
    'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at
    the root password from the network.
    
    Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
    Success.
    
    By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that
    anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing,
    and should be removed before moving into a production
    environment.
    
    Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
     - Dropping test database...
    Success.
    
     - Removing privileges on test database...
    Success.
    
    Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes
    made so far will take effect immediately.
    
    Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
    Success.
    
    All done!
    

    Test LAMP Stack

    Congratulation’s your LAMP setup has completed. To verify open your web browser and access localhost. You will see a screen like below. It showing that Apache is working fine.

    Tasksel One click LAMP installation

    Now create a PHP script in your web server document root. For example: /var/www/html/info.php and add the phpinfo() function to show details about PHP.

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    <?php
      phpinfo();
    ?>

    Then access this file in a browser, You will get something like below screen.

    Tasksel One click LAMP installation

    This article has been tested with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.

    Apache lamp MySQL PHP PHP5 tasksel Ubuntu
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    9 Comments

    1. ABDUL AZIZ BIN ABDUL NOOR on February 28, 2021 7:08 am

      Thank you, this tutorial helps me a lot

      Reply
    2. Tiim Romatoa on June 18, 2019 3:44 am

      hi

      I used the sudo mysql_secure_installation, however when creating database user and password the error i came across was… Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

      Reply
    3. jptropico on June 7, 2019 3:04 am

      Hi Rahul, thank you for the article. just one thing, should the url for the php info not be phpinfo.php?

      Reply
    4. simon on May 31, 2019 9:28 am

      Great article. very informative and useful post.

      Reply
    5. Mubarak Ahmad on November 15, 2018 12:31 pm

      “sudo tasksel lamp-server” should be “sudo tasksel install lamp-server”

      Reply
      • Rahul K. on November 16, 2018 5:51 am

        Thanks Mubarak,

        I have corrected the command.

        Reply
    6. Learn DBA on October 27, 2018 6:33 am

      Pleasant Article. MySQL 8.0 executes a totally new information lexicon. Percona Server will get it fine and dandy, while for MariaDB the selection would be tricky, given how behind it is with MySQL similarity.

      Reply
    7. Samik Chattopadhyay on October 24, 2018 5:06 am

      Hi Rahul, Thank you for writing this useful topic. I tried to install LAMP in ubuntu in my laptop, but it did not ask me for the password. Apache is installed and I can get http://localhost successfully, But I am not able to login to mysql using MySQL Workbench as its denying root access. What can I do now? Any idea?

      Reply
      • Rahul K. on October 24, 2018 6:42 am

        It may be no password is set for the root user on mysql. Try running:

        sudo mysql_secure_installation

        Reply

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