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Finally, the third part of our LAMP tutorial series: how to install PHP on Ubuntu. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install various versions of PHP, including PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3, and the latest PHP 7.4This tutorial should work for any Ubuntu release and other Ubuntu-based releases. Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, even Ubuntu 19.10. Tutorials here:.For the first part of our LAMP series, go to our tutorial.And for the second part, go to.Before we begin installing PHP on Ubuntu. PHP has different versions and releases you can use. Starting from the oldest that is currently – PHP 7.2, and onto PHP 7.3 and the latest – PHP 7.4. We’ll include instructions for, (the default in Ubuntu 18.04) and the default PHP version in the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories –.

We recommend that you install PHP 7.3 as it’s stable and has lots of improvements and new features. If you still use PHP 7.1, you definitely need to upgrade ASAP because its security support ends at the end of 2019. You’ll obviously need an Ubuntu server. You can get one from. Their servers start at $2.5 per month. Or you can go with any other where you have root access to the server.

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You’ll also need root access to your server. Either use the root user or a user with sudo access. We’ll use the root user in our tutorial so there’s no need to execute each command with ‘sudo’, but if you’re not using the root user, you’ll need to do that.

You’ll need if you use Ubuntu or an SSH client like if you use Windows. Check if PHP is already installed on your server.

You can use the ‘which php’ command. If it gives you a result, it’s installed, if it doesn’t, PHP is not installed. You can also use the “php -v” command. If one version is installed, you can still to another. Some shared hosts have already implemented PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4 in their shared servers, like and.Now, onto our tutorial. How to install PHP 7 on Ubuntu 16.04Currently, as of January 2018, the default PHP release in the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories is PHP 7.0.

We’ll show you how to install it using Ubuntu’s repository. You should use PHP 7.2 or 7.3 instead of the default, outdated PHP version in Ubuntu 16.04.

Skip these instructions and follow the instructions below for a newer version. Update UbuntuFirst, before you do anything else, you should update your Ubuntu server: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Install PHPNext, to install PHP, just run the following command: apt-get install phpThis command will install PHP 7.0, as well as some other dependencies:. php-common. php7.0.

php7.0-cli. php7.0-common. php7.0-fpm. php7.0-json.

php7.0-opcache. php7.0-readlineTo verify if PHP is installed, run the following command: php -vYou should get a response similar to this:And that’s it. PHP is installed on your Ubuntu server. Install PHP 7.0 modulesYou may need some additional packages and PHP modules in order for PHP to work with your applications. You can install the most commonly needed modules with: apt-get install php-pear php7.0-dev php7.0-zip php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-mysql php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xml libapache2-mod-php7.0Depending on how and what you’re going to use, you may need additional PHP modules and packages.

To check all the PHP modules available in Ubuntu, run: apt-cache search -names-only ^phpYou can tweak the command to only show ^php7.0- packages etc.If you want to use the latest PHP version, follow the next instructions instead. How to Install PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04PHP 7.2 is a stable version of PHP and has many new features, improvements, and bug fixes. You should definitely use it if you want a better, faster website/application.

Update UbuntuOf course, as always, first update Ubuntu: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Add the PHP repositoryYou can use a third-party repository to install the latest version of PHP.