How to install Apache together with PHP5 on Ubuntu? This becomes very handy if you wish to do some PHP development on Ubuntu.

 

  1. Open a new terminal window (CLI)

  2. Execute the following commands:

    sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

  3. Now we need to restart Apache so that our changes can take effect. There are two commands for you to choose from

    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    or

    sudo service apache2 restart