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Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 21.04

1. Update and Upgrade the Operating System

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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get autoremove
apt-get autoclean

2. Install Common Software

Install the software that you will need down the line

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apt-get install landscape-common
apt-get install curl
apt-get install htop

3. Update Date and Time

Correct date and time is extremely important for keeping the operating system correctly updated. Even minor fluctuations may cause different weird looking errors to be displayed throughout the lifetime of the distribution. So best to keep date and time properly synced.

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apt-get install ntpdate
ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
date
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
reboot

4. Install the Apache Web Server

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sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

5. Install the MySQL Database Server

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sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

# Import your SQL backup if you have one
sudo mysql -u root -p PASSWORD < 20210920_yourbackup.sql

Install Composer

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php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" > composer-setup.php
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Add a Swap File to Increase Memory

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free -m
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=2048
chmod 600 /var/swap.1
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
/sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | tee -a /etc/fstab
swapon -s
reboot

Install Firewall

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apt-get install ufw
ufw allow ssh
ufw allow http
ufw allow https
ufw enable

Install fail2ban

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apt-get install fail2ban
cp /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local
cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
fail2ban-client status