Deploying LAMP stack using GCE

Let's explore how we would set up a LAMP stack on a VM instance. LAMP is a stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP:

1. Connect to your Linux VM instance using SSH and update it. We will follow Debian 9 commands throughout this example:

sudo apt-get update 

1. Install Apache 2's PHP module:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php php  

1. To test the installation, enter your external IP address and you should see the Apache test page. You can copy the external IP from the list on the console page of VM instances. It should show the Apache starting page:

http://[EXTERNAL_IP]

1. To verify that PHP and Apache are working together, edit the phpinfo.php file and access it with your VM instance external IP:

sudo sh -c 'echo "[YOUR_PHP_CODE]" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php'
http://[YOUR_EXTERNAL_IP_ADDRESS]/phpinfo.php  

1. If it fails, you will receive a 404 error.
2. Finally, to install MySQL and relevant components, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql php-pear  

1. You now have a complete Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack.