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Hi monu2jan. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7, so installing PHP5 takes some extra steps. If you were using a tutorial written for 14.04, it may not have been appropriate for the droplet you’ve created.
Is PHP5 a requirement, or can you work with 7?
I recommend creating a Droplet using the “One-click apps” option. There are LAMP droplets available there for 14.04 (PHP5) and 16.04 (PHP7). You can get started creating a One-click app here.
Hope this helps!
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Hi @monu2jan ,
As of Ubuntu 16.04, PHP7 is default and recommended version. If you want to switch to PHP7 make sure that application is compatible with it (also it is recommended to test it before taking in production).
Anyways to install PHP5 you need to ad repository and install it.
Add PHP repository
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Refresh APT cache with
- sudo apt-get update
After it completes successfully, PHP5 is ready to be installed:
- sudo apt-get install php5.6
Please make sure when you want to install modules, specify it with php5.6.
For example:
- sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
- sudo apt-get install php5.6-mcrypt
If you go with php instead of php5.6 it will try to install PHP7 version of module.
Note: Make sure you delete older/newer version before installation
hi i am new about ubuntu i am working on magento project i want to install lamp+magento bcose magento new version is compatibale is ubuntu 16.04 32 bit please guide me how i will start
to install lamp i learn lot of tutorial but not acurate ans
@monu2jan,
Well, there shines DigitalOcean One-Click Apps.
DigitalOcean One-Click Apps will automatically create you droplet with needed applications, so you will not have any problem with it.
Magento One-Click App will setup Magento atop of Ubuntu 14.04, LAMP (Apache, PHP5, MySQL).
Only problem you have if you really want to use Ubuntu 16.04 as this One-Click is not updated for it.
In case you want to go with Ubuntu 16.04, you can use LAMP One-Click App. It will install whole LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP7) atop of Ubuntu 16.04.
Note: It says it runs on Ubuntu 14.04 on link, but is updated for Ubuntu 16.04! You can chose your variant on droplet creation. Note of selected option - LAMP on 16.04
After that find some tutorial and follow it to install Magento.
For example you can follow Magentos v2 tutorial or Magentos CE v1 tutorial.
DigitalOcean does not have tutorial for Ubuntu 16.04, instead they have for Ubuntu 14.04, which you can take some notes from here.
But if you want to build from ground, without any One-Click app, I can recommend some of DigitalOcean tutorials:
Initial Server set up on Ubuntu 16.04.
How to install LAMP stack on Ubuntu 16.04.
After that you should follow Magento tutotrial to install it.
You can also take a look on How to secure your site with Let’s Encrypt, it can help you set up SSL if you want.
