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Been trying the entire day to set up a lamp server. First I did: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ And everything seemed to work. When I visited localhost the it works!! page showed. Then I mistakenly deleted my html folder. But i replaced it by my own. But then (ofc) the it works!! site disappeared, but my server was still working. But to revert this I tried to uninstall my lamp server, following these tips: How do I remove the LAMP stack so I can start over?

But since this is an old tutorial my system couldn't find most files when I tried to remove them...

Anyhow, after that I tried to install everything again by hand: sudo apt-get install apache2, sudo apt-get install apachelib2-mod-php, sudo apt-get install mysql-server. Then did a mysql_secure_isntallation or something. And followd the instructions.

Now when I visit localhost the only thing that is outputed is 

<php
    echo "hello";
?>

which is a file i put there myself (not that it outputs the entire code). Also, I cant access my mysql database, even though i put the right password.

One huge problem I made is that I followed like 10 different tutorials on this, all which seem outdated since they all mentioned php5.

I know Im out on deep water here, but I don't even know how to debug this or what to check for. What can have gone wrong? What is still working? What is my best course of action right now?

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Edit 2017, August: You may have some difficulty in installing php5 in new Update of Ubuntu (16.04). Refer this to install php5.

I was also fully messed up. And I did this.

Completely remove apache2, mysql, php5, phpmyadmin.

  1. Completely removing PHPMyAdmin

    $ sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin* $ sudo apt-get autoremove $ sudo apt-get autoclean $ sudo rm -rf /etc/phpmyadmin /var/lib/phpmyadmin /var/lib/phpmyadmin

  2. Completely removing php5

    $ sudo apt-get remove php5 $ sudo apt-get autoremove $ sudo apt-get autoclean $ sudo rm -rf /etc/php5 /var/lib/php5 /var/lib/php5

  3. Completely removing mysql

    $ sudo apt-get purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5
    $ sudo apt-get autoremove
    $ sudo apt-get autoclean
    $ sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-files

  4. Completely removing apache2

    $ sudo apt-get remove apache2* $ sudo apt-get autoremove $ sudo apt-get autoclean $ sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2 /var/lib/apache2 /var/lib/apache2

Now Completely install all of them.

  1. apache2

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

  1. mysql

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

  1. php5

$ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

  1. phpmyadmin

$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext

---------------After These Installation----------------------

Write the following line to setup phpmyadmin

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

At the end the of file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Start the apache server

$ sudo service apache2 start

Note

Some of them are interdependent. So follow the steps in given order.

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