Debian 8 Jessie LAMP server tutorial with Apache 2, PHP 5 and MariaDB

Debian 8 Jessie LAMP server tutorial with Apache 2, PHP 5 and MariaDB (instead of MySQL)

2 Installing MariaDB as MySQL replacement

apt-get -y install mariadb-server mariadb-client

3 Installing Apache 2.4

apt-get -y install apache2

Now direct your browser to http://192.168.1.100, and you should see the Apache2 placeholder page (It works!):

4 Installing PHP 5.6

	apt-get -y install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
	service apache2 restart

5 Testing PHP / Getting details about your PHP installation

	nano /var/www/html/info.php

	<?php
	phpinfo();
	?>

Now we call that file in a browser (e.g. http://192.168.1.100/info.php):

6 Getting MySQL and MariaDB Support in PHP

  apt-cache search php5

apt-get -y install php5-mysqlnd php5-curl php5-gd php5-intl php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl

service apache2 restart

7 Install APCu PHP Cache to improve the PHP speed

apt-get install php5-apcu

service apache2 restart

8 phpMyAdmin 

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin

Afterwards, you can access phpMyAdmin under http://192.168.1.100/phpmyadmin/:

Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/

PHP: http://www.php.net/

MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/