Prestashop is an free and open source shopping cart which has many features that make it compatible with any web server (Apache, NginX and Microsoft IIS). It is well know for its vast collection of themes as well as custom store design. Multiple payment gateways can be integrated which makes it reliable and secured. It is fully supported with SSL certificates.

Prestashop supports more than 65 languages which keeps the e-commerce site to more flexible. It has about 3,500+ free and paid modules that has multiple functionalities.

In this tutorial, we will cover How to Install Prestashop with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server on Ubuntu Server 14.04.

Prerequisites

Before you begin with this tutorial, you should have a separate, non-root user account set up on your server. You can find out the tutorial how to create a user with sudo privileges by following steps 1 – 4 in the Initial server setup for Ubuntu Server 14.04

Once you have fulfilled the above requirements, continue on with the following guide.

Step 1 – Set Up LAMP Server for Prestashop

Before get the prestashop files and install them into your web directory. You need to have Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL (LAMP) installed and configured on your server.

Install Apache, MySql and PHP5

Make sure your package repositories and installed programs are up to date by issuing the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Apache, PHP, MySQL package and PHP modules that will be needed by the Prestashop installation.

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-memcache

During the installation, you’ll be asked to setup the MySQL root user password. This is an administrative account in MySQL that has increased privileges, Enter the password and select `OK`.

Now, Enable module php5-mcrypt by typing the following command:

sudo php5enmod mcrypt

Edit PHP configuration file

We will also be making a few small tweaks to our PHP configuration file. These are recommended by the Prestashop. Open and edit the Apache PHP configuration file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini with sudo privileges in your text editor

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Then add/modify the following lines:

memory_limit = 128M
upload_max_filesize = 16M
max_execution_time = 60
file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
register_globals = Off

When you are finished, press CTRL+O to save then press CTRL+X to Exit.

Changing the Default Directory Index Page

By default, apache load index page html script called index.html. Now, we will make PHP script called index.php first load in apache web server. You can do this by editing file dir.conf, it is located on directory /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

It will look like this:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
 DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

Move the index.php file to first position:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
 DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
 </IfModule>

When you are finished, press CTRL+O to save then press CTRL+X to Exit.

Improve MySQL Installation Security

The following command is initializes the MySQL data directory and creates the system tables that it contains, if they do not exist.

sudo mysql_install_db

Securing MySQL installation by running the following command:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

After execute the command above, it will be ask you to enter the password for the MySQL root account. Next, it will ask you if you want to change that password. If you are happy with your current password, type `n` for `no`. It also ask you to remove some sample users and databases, disable remote root logins, and load these new rules so that MySQL immediately respects the changes you have made.

Restart the Apache and MySQL Server

Restart apache and mysql service so that all of the changes take effect :

sudo service apache2 restart && sudo service mysql restart

Step 2 – Create MySQL User and Database for Prestashop

Log into the MySQL Shell as root:

mysql -u root -p

Once Successful login to the MySQL Shell. Now, create database for prestashop. In this tutorial, We will call our database `dbprestashop`. Feel free to give it whatever name you choose

CREATE DATABASE dbprestashop;

Next, you need to create a user that the Prestashop application can use to connect to the database. In this tutorial, we’ll call our user prestauser

CREATE USER prestauser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'prestashoppsswd';

Now, you have a database and a user for prestashop installation, but these two components have no relationship yet. The user has no access to the database.

Fix it by granting the user account access to your database with the following command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbprestashop.* TO prestauser@localhost;

Now the user has access to the database. We need to flush the privileges to tell mysql to reload the user table. Then sign out from MySQL shell.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit;

Step 3 – Download Stable Version of Prestashop

Next, download the stable version of prestashop installation files from the prestashop official site. Currently, stable version of prestashop available in version 1.6.0.14. Download it with following command:

wget https://www.prestashop.com/download/old/prestashop_1.6.0.14.zip

Now, Extract prestashop_1.6.0.14.zip with command unzip. If you don’t have unzip package installed on your server, install it by entering the command:

sudo apt-get install unzip

Extract prestashop archieve:

unzip prestashop_1.6.0.14.zip

This will create a directory called prestashop in your home directory.

Step 4 – Copy Prestashop File to Apache Root Directory

In this step, you need to copy prestashop installation into apache’s root directory, where it can be served to visitors of our website. The directory of the apache document root is /var/www/html/. Use rsync command to transferring files from directory to directory. You can transfer prestashop installation files by typing:

sudo rsync -avP ~/prestashop/ /var/www/html/

Step 5 – Set Ownership and Permission Prestashop Installation File

Next, you need to change the group ownership of prestashop installation files for increased security. The group ownership that will give to web server process, which is www-data. This will allow Apache to interact with the content as necessary.

In this guide, we will use the same username that used in tutorial initial setup for ubuntu server 14.04, which called “ubuntu“. First, you should ensure that your username is included in www-data group

sudo usermod -aG www-data ubuntu

sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www/html/*

Find all directories in /var/www/html/ and set their permissions to 755

sudo find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

Do it again, but for files and set to 644

sudo find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Step 6 – Install Prestshop Through Web Browser

Now, you can complete prestashop installation through web browser on your computer. Open your favorite web browser, then navigate to your server’s domain name or public IP address:

Select your language and hit the `Next` button

Check list License Agreements – click `Next`

On this page, you need the fill out the information for your prestashop site and the administrative user account

Configure database for prestashop site by fill out the database information that created in `Step 2`

Prestshop installation is finish.

Now you can access prestashop front office by clicking Discover your store. Click Manage your store to access prestashop dashboard.

For security reason, Prestashop not permitted to acccess prestashop dashboard until you have deleted the /install folder and renamed the /admin folder.

You can Rename /install folder and renamed the /admin folder by typing command:

sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/install

sudo mv /var/www/html/admin/ /var/www/html/admin353jccgjg

Now you can access prestashop back office by typing address http://your_domain/admin353jccgjg. It should appear like this:

Step 7 – Additional Setting – Set URL Friendly

Enable apache module rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Edit file 000-default.conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

On section <Directory “/var/www/html”> add line AllowOverride All

<Directory "/var/www/html">
 AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Create file .httacces and robot.txt

sudo touch /var/www/html/.htaccess

sudo touch /var/www/html/robot.txt

Change permission file .httacces and robot.txt to 666

sudo chmod 666 /var/www/html/.htaccess

sudo chmod 666 /var/www/html/robot.txt

Change ownership file .httacces and robot.txt to user:www-data

sudo chown ubuntu:www-data /var/www/html/.htaccess

sudo chown ubuntu:www-data /var/www/html/robot.txt

Back to prestashop dashboard, navigate to Preferences -> SEO & URLs, Set yes on “Friendly URL”

Conclusion

In this guide, you should now have a prestashop instance up and running on your Ubuntu Server 14.04. Prestashop is simple, easy to use, dynamic, growing, and in-vogue ecommerce CMS that realizes and delivers on the expectations of enterprising web ecommerce ventures.

Note : This tutorial has been tested in VPS Digital Ocean and work great.

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The major change that is very important for this particular version is the fact the developers are now basing the new version of Zentyal server 4.0 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 (trusty tahr). it available in two editions. Zentyal server 4.0 community edition, is good for personal use. If you need more features, you can go for the paid Zentyal Server 4.0 Commercial Edition.

According to official announcement, “The Zentyal server 4.0 release focuses on providing an improved and stable server edition with native Microsoft® Exchange protocol implementation and Active Directory interoperability, with the goal of providing a complete and easy-to-use Small Business Server, with native support for mixed IT environments that include Windows®, Linux and Mac OS® clients, as well as mobile devices with ActiveSync®. Thanks to this, Zentyal server 4.0 offers full native Microsoft® Outlook Compatibility without plugins or connectors.”

“Besides focusing primarily on mail and mail-related directory features, additional improvements have also taken place. An important effort has been put into establishing the necessary quality assurance processes and to offer existing customers a migration path from Commercial Zentyal Server 3.2 Editions to 4.0 Edition”

Here’s the highlights of Zentyal Server 4.0:

Zentyal Mail

• Native compatibility with Microsoft® Exchange Server Protocols
• Native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory®
• Multiple Virtual Mail Domain
• Email, calendars, contacts
• Webmail
• Supported email clients
• Synchronization with mobile devices

Zentyal Directory

• Native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory®

More details about Zentyal Server 4.0 features you can read on Zentyal Server Features

Download Zentyal Server 4.0:

• Zentyal Community Edition
• Zentyal Commercial Edition

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One imporant about this release, Ubuntu Server 14.10 come with support for Docker containers, the latest iteration of OpenStack 2014.1, and a bunch of other refreshed features aimed at hyperscale deployments. it also support for Docker v1.2, as well as LXC containers, embedded inside. With previous editions of Ubuntu Server, containers could only be created by sysadmins with root access. But now LXC containers are getting a new user-level controller, which means users can do so too.

Juju, Ubuntu’s service orchestration tool, has a revamped GUI which aims to simplify the scaling of large scale deployments, such as OpenStack, on public and private clouds or on bare metal. The addition of a machine level view makes it easier to manage workloads, while at a service level, users can take advantage of drag and drop placement.

In additional, Juno update of OpenStack also included in Ubuntu Server 14.10. Key components like Cinder, Ceilometer, Glance, Heat, Horizon, Nova and Swift have all been refreshed, while the new OpenStack setup includes options for installing Hadoop and Apache Spark on virtual machines running atop OpenStack. Juno also offers more granular policy controls for object storage as well as support for network function virtualization (NFV).

Ubuntu’s Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) tool to help run Ubuntu on bare metal servers has been updated to version 1.7. Now, it’s not only capable of deploying Ubuntu Server instances, but also instances of CentOS 6.X, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, and Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2.

For more deatail about this release you can read official release announcement of Ubuntu Server 14.10 Utopic Unicorn

Download Ubuntu Server 14.10 Utopic Unicorn

Ubuntu Server 14.10 is available for download and install. Among the supported hardware platforms, we can mention 32-bit (i386), 64-bit (amd64), 64-bit Mac (amd64 for Macintosh systems), PowerPC (PPC), as well as PowerPC64 (PPC64) Little Endian. while a more detailed look at the new specs and features can be found here.

Torrent

• Ubuntu Server 14.10 AMD64 torrent
• Ubuntu Server 14.10 i386 torrent

Direct

• Ubuntu Server 14.10 AMD64 iso
• Ubuntu Server 14.10 i386 iso

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In this tutorial we will provide you basic step how to install Drupal 7.x with Apache2 + MySQl 5.5 + PHP 5.5 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS.

Step 1 : Setup LAMP Stack

Before installing Drupal 7.x you need to have a LAMP (Linux, Apache2, MySQL5, and PHP5) stack installed on your Ubuntu Server 14.04. If you don’t have these components already installed and configured, you can use this tutorial to learn how to Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu Server 14.04.

Step 2 : Create Database and User for Drupal

Log in to mysql server as root user by typing the following command

mysql -u root -p

Once Successful login to the Mysql Server, use these command to create database for drupal. In this case I will give the name of the drupal database as dbdrupal, You can call this whatever you would like.

CREATE DATABASE dbdrupal;

Next, we are going to create a separate MySQL user account and give this user a password. On this case I will call the new account “drupuser” and password for new account “drUPp@5sw0Rd“, you should definitely change the password for your installation and can name the user whatever you’d like. You can do this by typing the following command:

CREATE USER drupuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'drUPp@5sw0Rd';

Next, grant all privileges on the database you just created to the new user by running the commands below

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbdrupal.* TO drupuser@localhost;

We need to flush the privileges so that the current instance of MySQL knows about the recent privilege changes we’ve made:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And finally we exit the MySQL terminal by entering:

exit;

Step 3 : Download Drupal 7.x

Enter to directory Document root of Apache :

cd /var/www/html

Download drupal 7.x from the drupal project’s website with the following command:

sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.31.tar.gz

Extract the files “drupal-7.31.tar.gz” to rebuild the drupal directory with these command:

sudo tar -zxvf drupal-7.31.tar.gz

This will create a directory called drupal-7.31 in directory /var/www/html

Copy all file on drupal-7.31 directory in to Apache‘s document root , we recommend to use rsync command for preserves permissions and data integrity:

sudo rsync -avP drupal-7.31/ /var/www/html

Or, you can doing it without mentioning Apache’s document root:

sudo rsync -avP drupal-7.31/ .

Once copying all file on drupal directory is complete. Remove directory drupal-7.31 and file latest.tar.gz by typing the following command:

sudo rm -rf drupal-7.31/ drupal-7.31.tar.gz

Give permissions to user and group (www-data) over everything under directory /var/www/html

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

Step 4 : Install Drupal 7.x from the Web Browser

Complete the drupal 7.x installation through the web browser, in your web browser, navigate to your server’s domain name or public IP address [http://ip_public] or [http://domain]

You should see this image:

In this case I would choose profle : standar option.

Choose language : Default english

Select database type : default mysql, enter the database name, database username, and database password

Drupal installation is complete, click “visit your new site” to show homepage of drupal site

The following video created by LinuxScoop and is describes How to Install Drupal 7.x with Apache2 + MySQl 5.5 + PHP 5.5 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS . Original video you can found here:

Note: This tutorial have been tested on VPS DigitalOcean

Link Reference :

• Drupal Documentation

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This tutorial will describe basic step how to installing fresh wordpress 3.9 with Apache2, Mysql 5.5 and PHP 5.5 in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS.

Step 1 : Setup LAMP Stack

Before installing wordpress you need to have a LAMP (Linux, Apache2, MySQL5, and PHP5) stack installed on your Ubuntu Server 14.04. If you don’t have these components already installed and configured, you can use this tutorial to learn how to Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu Server 14.04.

Step 2 : Create Database and User for WordPress

Log in to mysql server as root user by typing the following command

mysql -u root -p

Once Successful login to the Mysql Server, use these command to create database for wordpress. In this case I will give the name of the wordpress database as dbwordpress, You can call this whatever you would like.

CREATE DATABASE dbwordpress;

Next, we are going to create a separate MySQL user account and give this user a password. On this case I will call the new account “wpuser” and password for new account “wpP@5sw0Rd“, you should definitely change the password for your installation and can name the user whatever you’d like. You can do this by typing the following command:

CREATE USER wpuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'wpP@5sw0Rd';

Next, grant all privileges on the database you just created to the new user by running the commands below

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbwordpress.* TO wpuser@localhost;

We need to flush the privileges so that the current instance of MySQL knows about the recent privilege changes we’ve made:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And finally we exit the MySQL terminal by entering:

exit;

Step 3 : Download WordPress Latest Version

Enter to directory Document root of Apache :

cd /var/www/html

Download wordpress latest version from the project’s website with the following commad:

sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract the files “latest.tar.gz” to rebuild the WordPress directory with these command:

sudo tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

This will create a directory called wordpress in directory /var/www/html

Copy all file on wordpress directory in to Apache’s document root , we recommend to use rsync command for preserves permissions and data integrity:

sudo rsync -avP wordpress/ /var/www/html

Or, you can doing it without mentioning Apache’s document root:

sudo rsync -avP wordpress/ .

Once copying all file on wordpress directory is complete. Remove wordpress directory and file latest.tar.gz

sudo rm -rf wordpress/ latest.tar.gz

Give permissions to user and group (www-data) over everything under directory /var/www/html

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

Step 4 : Install WordPress through the Web Browser

Complete the wordpress installation through the web browser, In your web browser, navigate to your server’s domain name or public IP address [http://ip_public] or [http://domain]

You should see this image:

Click on Create Configuration File, followed by Let’s Go in the next step. In the 3rd step, enter the details as follows:

Database Name: dbwordpress
User Name: wpuser
Password: wpP@5sw0Rd
Database Host: localhost
Table Prefix: wp_

After click on Submit. you should get the following page. Click Run Install

Now you will see the WordPress initial configuration page, Fill out the information for the site such as Site title, Username, Password and Your Email, Check list on privacy option if you allow search engine crawling your site. Then and click Install WordPress

WordPress will confirm the installation process is success. It also show you login account that have been created on previous step.

Hit the log in button if you want login to wordpress dashboard.

Additonal Setting – WordPress Permalinks

By default, WordPress create  URLs dynamically that look something like this [ domain/?page_id=4 ] to enable URL friendly you need to have an .htaccess file on root directory where wordpress installed, The first thing you do is edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Add the following line under option (DocumentRoot /var/www/html) on section <VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName domain_or_IP
<Directory /var/www/html/>
      AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Example:

Enable the rewrite module with these command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart apache2 service:

sudo service apache2 restart

Create empty file .htaccess in your document root

sudo touch /var/ww/html/.htaccess

Give permission file .htaccess with username and group (www-data)

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/ww/html/.htaccess

Set permission file /var/www/html/.htaccess to 644

sudo chmod 664 /var/www/html/.htaccess

Now you can setting wordpress permaliks from wordpress dashboard, navigate to Settings -> Permalinks

The following video created by LinuxScoop and is describes How to install WordPress 3.9 with Apache2 + MySQL 5.5 + PHP5.5 in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS . Original video you can found here

Note: This tutorial have been tested on VPS DigitalOcean 512MB

Link Reference :

• WordPress.org
• WordPress Ubuntu

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NOTE : Before starting upgrade to latest version of ubuntu server, make sure you have full backups you data and everything important on your ubuntu server to other remote system or backup drive. If you are using Ubuntu on VPS make sure take a server snapshot at your provider before upgrading. And we do not grantees the following tutorial will work for you properly.

Step 1: Updating Ubuntu Repository and Install Update Manager

Make sure your current ubuntu server  is fully up to date, doing it with the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Install update manager core package with these command:

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

Step 2: Check Current Version of Ubuntu Server and Kernel Version

Run the following command to check current version of ubuntu server and kernel information that used ubuntu server

lsb_release -a

uname -a

On this case, we are using Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 and kernel 3.8.0-29-generic

Step 3: Upgrade to Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

Type the following command to upgrade the Ubuntu server 12.04.4 to Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS :

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

After execute command do-release-upgrade, it will showing the upgrade tool like the screenshot on below. Answer ” Y ” to upgrade.

During the upgrade prosess, you may be asked “Disable SSH password authentication for root?” answer “No” if you want to disable SSH password authentication after the upgrading finish

Next, you may be asked “Restart services during package upgrades without asking?” answer yes if you won’t be asked on each library update.

The end of the installation you will be prompted to remove any obsolete packages, Answer ‘y’ to continue and remove. Hit ‘d’ to see details of these packages.

Once remove obsolete packages is complete, you will get message “System upgrade is complete”. Congratulations, your Ubuntu Server 12.04 has now been upgraded to the Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. To complete the upgrade, reboot your Ubuntu Server by answering ‘Y’.

Step 4 : Checking Version of Ubuntu Server and Kernel Version After Upgrade

Once your Ubuntu Server has been rebooted successfully, you need to check the version of ubuntu server and kernel version with the command “lsb_release -a” and “uname -r”.

lsb_release -a

uname -r

The commands will confirm the Ubuntu Server that you are using is Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS.

Optional: If you get information “No LSB modules are available ” after execute the command “lsb_release -a” . Fix this problem by installing “lsb_core” package:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lsb-core

Now run again the command lsb_release -a to check for LSB modules. You should get information of LSB version like the following screenshot.

lsb_release a

On this tutorial we also included video step by step upgrading ubuntu server 12.04 to ubuntu server 14.04. The following video created by LinuxScoop, original video can found here

Link Reference:

• Upgrading Ubuntu Server
• Ubuntu Forum

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• Linux is a Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating system. Ubuntu Server is one of popular Linux distributions dedicated for server environment.
• Apache is a HTTP web server, the most popular in use. It serves webpages when they’re requested by the web browsers. When you type an URL on your web server and press Enter, the pages you see on screen is most likely served by Apache webserver.
• MySQL is a database management system now owned by Oracle Corporation. It stores and organizes references to the information the webserver needs.
• PHP is a reflective programming language, which makes it possible for all these different parts to work together.

This tutorial assumes that you have already installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 correctly in you machine, if you need guide basic install ubuntu server 14.04 you can read here. 

Install and Configure Apache2

First, update ubuntu repository with the following command :

sudo apt-get update

Install Apache2 and all related dependencies with these command:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils

Once apache2 installed, modify file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf, with your favorite editor. I’ll used nano command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

You should see the following line:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
       DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

Change to:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
       DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

Restart apache2 with following command:

sudo service apache2 restart

Now you can check out apache2 is working or not by visiting your server’s public IP address or domain from your web browser ( http://ip_address or http://domain.com). If it work you will see the default Ubuntu 14.04 Apache web page, which is there for informational and testing purposes. It should look something like this:

Install and Configure MySQL Server

To install Mysql Server package and all related package dependencies run the followong command:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

During the installation, you’ll be asked to setup the MySQL root user password. This is an administrative account in MySQL that has increased privileges, Enter the password and select [OK].

After the mysql server installation complete, you need to run some command for tell MySQL to create database directory structure where it will store its information. You can do this by typing the following command:

sudo mysql_install_db

Run the following command, It will be ask you to enter the password for the MySQL root account. Next, it will ask you if you want to change that password. If you are happy with your current password, type “n” for “no”. It also ask you to remove some sample users and databases, disable remote root logins, and load these new rules so that MySQL immediately respects the changes you have made.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install and Configure PHP5

To install PHP5 package and all related package dependencies run the following command below. by default ubuntu server 14.04 will installed PHP 5.5

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php-pear php5-gd  php5-mcrypt php5-curl

Testing PHP5 and MySQL

In order to test PHP script you need to create simple PHP script in directory /var/www/html. in this case I’ll create phpinfo.php:

sudo touch /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

sudo nano  /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Add the following line into file /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Save and exit ( Ctrl + O, Ctrl + X)

Test the php script you have made from web browser by typing in address bar http://ip_address/phpinfo.php. It will appear like screenshot on below.

This page basically gives you information about your server from the perspective of PHP. It is useful for debugging and to ensure that your settings are being applied correctly.

Testing MySQL connection with PHP script. Create the file /var/www/html/phpmysql.php then add the following line on below. Replace the password with your mysql root password have made during mysql installation:

sudo touch /var/www/html/phpmysql.php

sudo nano /var/www/html/phpmysql.php

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");
if (!$con)
{
 die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
else
{
 echo "Congrats! connection established successfully";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>

Now open web browser and navigate to http://ip_address/phpmysql.php, The page should be appear like screenshot on below:

The following video created by LinuxScoop and is describes basic steps how to installing LAMP in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. Original Video found here.

Conclusion

Now that you have a LAMP (Linux, Apache2, Mysql 5, and PHP5)  installed in Ubuntu Server 14.04. Installing LAMP in ubuntu server 14.04 you can also using single command:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

or

sudo tasksel

Then select [ * ] LAMP Server, It will install all package that needed for LAMP Stack.

Basically, you have installed a platform that will allow you to install web based apps in your server.

Note : This tutorial have been tested on VPS DigitalOcean 512MB

Link Reference:

• Ubuntu Server 14.04 Server Guide
• Ubuntu PHP Apache MySQL

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Come with LTS version Ubuntu Server 14.04 will be supported for 5 years by canonical, it also includes few apps such as ( OpenStack 2014.1, Puppet 3, Xen 4.4, Ceph 0.79, Qemu 2.0.0, Open vSwitch 2.0.1, Libvirt 1.2.2, LXC 1.0, MAAS 1.5, Juju 1.18.1, strongSwan, MySQL, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5) that easily to deploy and orchestrate services in the cloud.

More detail about Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS you can found the full release notes at here

Step by Step Installing Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr

Step 1. First, Download ubuntu server 14.04 lts from ubuntu official site or click the following link to download the Ubuntu Server:

• Download Ubuntu Server 14.04 32 bit
• Download Ubuntu Server 14.04 64 bit

Step 2. After downloaded, burn ISO image of ubuntu server 14.04 into cd or usb flash disk. Set your computer booting from usb flash disk or cd/dvd. the system will boot (start) from the cd/dvd or USB flash drive and it appears.

Select what language you would like to install. I am going to use English language

Step 3. Select Install Ubuntu Server

Step 4. Select language that used for the installation process, default English

Step 5. Select location that will used for time zone and also for example to help select the system locale

Step 6. Configure keyboard layout

Step 8. Select country of origin for the keyboard. I am going to use English (US).

Step 9. Select the layout matching the keyboard for your machine. Default English

Step 10. Auto configure network

Step 11. Set Up users and password : Enter full name or real name for the new user, then select <Continue>

Step 12. Set Up users and password : Enter name for your account, then select <Continue>

Step 13. Set Up users and password : Enter password for the new user

Step 14. Set Up users and password : Re-enter password for the new user

Step 15. Set Up users and password : Answer <Yes> if you want to encrypt home directory. I recommend answer <No> because if your hard driver ever gets corrupted and you need to retrieve information it will be much easier to access it.

Step 16. Select your time zone

Step 17. Partitioning Disks: In this case i will used partitioning methode LVM

Step 17. Partitioning Disks: Select Disk to partition

Step 18. Partitioning Disks: Answer <Yes> to write the change to disk and configure LVM

Step 19. Partitioning Disks: Assign the size/amount of volume group to use for guided patitioning.

Step 20. Partitioning Disks: Answer <Yes> to Write all the change to disk

Step 21. Installing the System..

Step 22. Configure HTTP Proxy: Select <Continue> unless you are using a proxy, in this case we are not.

Step 23. Configure Taskel: Select No automatic updates

Step 24. Software Selection: Select [*] OpenSSH Server by pressing space key on keyboard, then select continue

Step 24. Installing all Software.

Step 25. Answer <YES> to Install the GRUB boot loader on a hardisk

Step 25. Installation is Complete, Select <Continue>

Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr ready to use..

The following video created by LinuxScoop and is describes basic steps how to installing Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS from begining to end. Original Video found here

Link Reference:

• Ubuntu Server

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Step 1 – Login as Root via SSH

Before login into your ubuntu server, you already know the information about your server’s public IP address and the password for the “root” user’s account. Now, log in into your server with the following command:

ssh root@SERVER_IP_ADDRESS

If you see a message like below, don’t panic. As it is your first connection to your ubuntu server, your computer is telling you that it doesn’t recognize the remote server. Just type “yes” to confirm the authentication.

The authenticity of host '123.123.123.123 (123.123.123.123)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerpring is
79:95:46:1a:ab:37:11:8e:86:54:36:38:bb:3c:fa:c0.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

Step 2 – Updating Ubuntu Server

After you have logged into your ubuntu server as root, update your ubuntu server repositories by typing the following command.

apt-get update

Type the followong command, if you want to upgrade all existing packages to the latest version. You should hit Y after it asks you if you want to update all packages.

apt-get upgrade

Step 3 – Change Password root user

passwd

Step 4 – Creating a New Account

adduser ubuntu

Step 5 – Giving Your New User Account Sudo Access

visudo

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

ubuntu ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Step 6 – Configuring the SSH server

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Port 22
PermitRootLogin yes

Port 22500
PermitRootLogin no

• Port : Although port 22 is the default. In this tutorial we are using port 22500, you can change this to any number between 1025 and 65536.
• PermitRootLogin: change this from yes to no to stop future root login. You will now only be logging on as the new user.

service ssh restart

logout

ssh -p 22500 ubuntu@SERVER_IP_ADDRESS

sudo command_to_run

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Well, on this is a simple tutorial I will show you how to test the Internet connection speed on ubuntu server using the command line tool called speedtest-cli. Speedtest-cli is a simple client written in Python CLI to measure bidirectional bandwidth Internet using the Speedtest.net infrastructure. It works with Python 2.4 to 3.4.

Installing speedtest-cli Using pip command:

First, install pip with the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Once pip installed, now install speedtest-cli by using pip command:

sudo pip install speedtest-cli

Installing speedtest-cli Manually

To installing speedtest-cli in manually method you need to download the latest speedtest-cli python script from github:

sudo wget https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

make speedtest_cli.py executable

sudo chmod a+rx speedtest_cli.py

Move speedtest_cli.py to directory /usr/bin

sudo mv speedtest_cli.py /usr/bin/speedtest-cli

Test Connection Speed using Speedtest-cli

It is easy to check internet speed with speedtest-cli. Just type command speedtest-cli without any arguments.

speedtest-cli

After execute this command it will automatically detect locate the closest of Speedtest server (in terms of geographical distance) and show the report download speed an upload speed

If you would like to share the results of the speed test, you can use “–share” option after speedtest-cli command, which allows you to share results of the speed test with others in an image format via Speedtest.net .

speedtest-cli --share

For a list of servers Speedtest.net available worldwide, use “–list” option. An ordered list of servers is displayed Speedtest.net (geographically nearest first).

speedtest-cli --list

In the server list shown above, each server Speedtest.net shows a server ID associated on the front. You can manually specify the server ID for the test, instead of using the geographically closest server. For example, if I want to use a sever in Valenca – Brazil, I can specify a corresponding server ID (eg, 3203).

speedtest-cli --server 3203

More information about speedtest-cli, type:

speedtest-cli --help

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