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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to install a production-ready LAMP stack on Ubuntu 24.04.

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

This setup uses PHP-FPM with Apache’s event MPM instead of the older mod_php. It’s faster, it uses far less memory under load, and it’s the configuration you want on a real server. With mod_php, every Apache worker carries a full PHP interpreter (roughly 60 MB each), so a traffic spike can spawn enough workers to exhaust your RAM and freeze the whole box. PHP-FPM keeps PHP in a separate pool you can cap, so a burst queues instead of crashing the server.

First you’ll install all the required packages, then you’ll configure each one.