Setting up the LAMP Stack from scratch on Ubuntu

When migrating servers to AWS, its great to be able to set them up easily and quickly. This is effectively a lovely cheat-sheet. By running the scripts below you can have a full LAMP Stack running on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu in less than 5 minutes./* Set locale to UK - V IMPORTANT!! */sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8/* Run update and upgrades */sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgrade/* Install Apache 2 */sudo apt-get install apache2/* Server internal firewall config */sudo ufw allow OpenSSHsudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"sudo ufw enable/* Install MySQL */sudo apt-get install mysql-servermysql_secure_installation(No,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes)/* Install php and associated plugins as needed */sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysqlsudo apt-get install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml php-xmlrpc/* Restart services */sudo systemctl restart apache2/* Update Apache2 config to allow .htaccess files and modified file permissions */sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf<Directory /var/www/html/>AllowOverride (Change None to All)</Directory>/* Turn on rewrite rules for Apache2 */sudo a2enmod rewritesudo systemctl restart apache2/* Update permissions so that FTP can write to the web root folder */sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www/html/* Reboot server */sudo reboot