Linux - Install PHP
Installation
Use apt to install PHP. In addition, include some helper packages this time so that PHP code can run under the Apache server and talk to your MySQL database:
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sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
Install PHP Command Line Interface:
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sudo apt install php-cli
Configuration
Open the dir.conf file to prioritize PHP extensions over standard ones:
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sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf
It should look like this:
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<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
Lets restart Apache to apply the changes and also check the status of Apache service:
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sudo systemctl restart apache2 && sudo systemctl status apache2
● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
└─apache2-systemd.conf
Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-04-23 14:28:43 EDT; 45s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 13581 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 13605 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
├─13623 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
├─13626 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
├─13627 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
├─13628 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
├─13629 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
└─13630 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
Verification
Now let’s check if everything is working correctly by creating a PHP file under the web hosting directory we created earlier on the Apache Installation section:
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sudo vim /var/www/your_domain/phpinfo.php
Add the following lines to the phpinfo.php:
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<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Now we can check the ouput via the browser by going to your domain/ip:
http://your_domain/phpinfo.php or http://your_ip/phpinfo.ph If it successful go ahead and remove the file to avoid giving away security information:
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sudo rm /var/www/your_domain/phpinfo.php