How to install PHP7.x, MySQL5.7 on Ubuntu 16.x

Open the terminal

>sudo apt-get update

>sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext apache2 mysql-server-5.7 mysql-client php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

This will download all the required dependencies and will ask you to

• Key in password for root for mysql
• decide which webserver (select apache2)
• Setup phpmyadmin with db-config – This time say ‘Yes’ and then enter the phpmyadmin db password you want to keep

Once this done

• sudo mysql_secure_installation (answer the questions appropriately)
• sudo phpenmod mycrypt
• sudo phpenmod mbstring
• sudo systemctl restart mysql
• sudo systemctl restart apache2
• sudo a2enmod rewrite
• sudo systemctl restart apache2

Enable rewrite module

>sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

Inside that file, you will find the block on line 1. Inside of that block, add the following block:

< Directory /var/www/html >
               Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
               AllowOverride All
               Order allow,deny
               allow from all
< / Directory >

>sudo service apache2 restart

You are done. Open up a browser and access – http:// < server ip address >