Install Apache2 with PHP 7 support in Ubuntu 16.04 server

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The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

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This tutorial will explain how to install Apache2 with PHP 7 support in Ubuntu 16.04 server

Install Apache2 server

This is very simple to do from the server command line run the following command

sudo apt-get -y install apache2

After completing the installation you can test using the following URL from web browser

http://serverip

You should see similar to the following screen

Note:- document root of the apache2 default vhost is /var/www/html and configuration file location is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Install php7 in ubuntu 16.04 server

run the following commands in ubuntu 16.04 server command prompt this will install apache2 supported module for php7

sudo apt-get -y install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

After the installation you need to Restart the apache2 server using the following command

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Test PHP installation

We need to create test.php file under /var/www/html

sudo vi /var/www/html/test.php

add the following code and save the file

<?php
phpinfo();
? >

Change the owner of the file test.php to the www-data user and group

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/test.php

Now go to http://serverip/test.php and you should see similar to the following screen here you can see php7 is enabled for apache2.

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