Install Apache2.4 on Ubuntu 20.04 systems and configure with php

By following this you will be able to install apache2.4 server on ubuntu machines and configure it to work with PHP.

Install apache2.4 server on Ubuntu

To install Apache2.4 run the follwoing commands on terminal.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apache2

First line will update the repositeries and second line will install "Apache2.X" latest stable version available. After installation is finished a success meassage will be displayed.

Now verfiy its installation by opening a browser and enter url "http://localhost". If installation is successful the following like page appears on your browser.

Default location of hosted website is /var/www/html. To make your website running place your files here. This location can be edited by editing its virtual host file present at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

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To make your installed "Apache2.4" server parse .php files you have to install libapache2-mod-php PHP module using the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php

After successful installation restart Apache2 service using following command.

$ sudo service apache2 restart

To test its working let's create a test file info.php and save at the server document root path /var/www/html/. Add the following line to this file and save it.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Now open your browser and enter the url "http://localhost/info.php". You should be able to see the PHP configuration installed on your system.

If you could able to get it, congratulations! you have successfully installed and configured PHP and Apache2.4.