Alternative downloads. The network installer lets you install Ubuntu over a network. It includes the minimal set of packages needed to start and the rest of the packages are downloaded over the network. Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. Ubuntu 14.04.5 Desktop (64-bit) Ubuntu 14.04.5 Desktop (32-bit) Ubuntu 14.04.5 Server (64-bit) Ubuntu 14.04.5. To install lightweight desktop manager based on Gnome use the following command: sudo apt-get install xorg gnome-core gnome-system-tools gnome-app-install Install lightweight Gnome desktop on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I like Gnome core as a lightweight GUI for Ubuntu Server so much that I made a video on how to install GUI on Ubuntu Server. You may watch the above video and follow along. How to install PECL PAM in Ubuntu 14.04. Ask Question 0. Can any one help to install PECL PAM in ubuntu 14.04 system. I have tried to install via terminal using sudo aptitude install php5-auth-pam this is what we get 'Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched 'php5-auth-pam' '.
Months after the stable version of PHP 7.0 was released, this could be the right time for you to think of upgrading to it from the old versions.
There is always caution about upgrades especially in a production environment, but it is a good idea now to upgrade so as to enjoy speed improvements, and also features such as scalar type hinting plus many more.
You can install two versions of PHP on your system and use one for testing purposes, but remember that you only enable one PHP Apache modules in a given time.
This guide focuses on upgrading from PHP 5.X, using mod_php in connection with Apache Web server or PHP-FPM in connection with Nginx Web server.
Now let us dive into how you can upgrade to latest version of PHP and also configure your system to use it.
How to Install PHP 7 in Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10
First, you will have to add the PPA maintained by Ondřej Surý for Debian and its derivatives such as Ubuntu by running the command below:
Next update your system as follows:
All is now set, and you can install PHP 7.0, but we shall look at upgrade for Apache and Nginx in different sections.
Upgrading to PHP 7.0 under Apache Web Server
This section is for systems running Apache, where PHP code is executed using mod_php module. Install the latest PHP version as running the command below:
Sample Output
PHP has now been upgraded on your system, but if you are using MySQL database management system, then you will have to execute the following command to update the PHP-MySQL binding and also you will need to install some useful modules such as Curl, GD, Cli, JSON, etc.
If you want to install additional PHP7.0 modules, you can use apt-cache command to list all PHP7.0 modules and install.
Sample Output
Once PHP7.0 and its modules installed, you can restart your Apache web server and verify the PHP version as shown:
Sample Output
You can also verify PHP7 information by creating a info.php file under /var/www/html directory.
Place following code and access the page via http://server_IP-address/info.php.
Check PHP 7 Information for Apache
Upgrading to PHP 7.0 under Nginx Web Server
This section takes you through the process of upgrading to PHP7.0 and updating PHP-FPM with Nginx Web server, where PHP code is executed using PHP-FPM.
Run the command below to install the latest PHP-FPM packages:
PHP has now been upgraded, but if you are using MySQL, then you will have to execute the following command to update the PHP-MySQL binding and some additional modules as shown:
Next, you need to append the fastcgi_pass directive in the file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default or all files for your virtual sites that have to use and support PHP, since the path of the PHP-FPM socket file that PHP uses to communicate with Nginx has changed.
Use your favorite editor and open the file for editing as follows:
Modify or append as follows:
Then restart Nginx and php-fpm as follows:
Lastly, you can test whether PHP is working or not by first checking the your PHP version and then testing it with the Web server.
You get information about your PHP packages by writing a small info.php file under /usr/share/nginx/html/ directory:
Put this code on your info.php file:
Save and exit the file.
Open your web browser, enter http://server_IP-address/info.php and you should be able to see the page below which shows you details about your PHP package.
You can now happily use PHP 7.0 on your Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 system, and I hope you find this guide helpful.
For any additional information concerning upgrading PHP or questions, your comments are welcome in the comment section below.
With the release of all Ubuntu 14.04 flavors on April 17 2014 including Ubuntu for Phone and Tablet products, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, had also released Server, Cloud and Server Core Editions with a five years long term support guaranteed on software and updates until April 2019.
One of the most significant things about this Trusty Tahr codename release is that the Server Edition in now available only for x64 bit computer architecture processors.
The other important things concerning this release are presented in Ubuntu Official Wiki page:
- Linux kernel 3.13 based on the v3.13.9 upstream stable Linux kernel witch include better networking experience on interface bonding, bridge, TCP connection management and Open vSwitch 2.0.1 support.
- A better virtualization support ( XEN, KVM, WMware and also Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor), general performance on Filesystems, ARM support and a lot of others improvements.
- Python 3.4
- AppArmor new features
- Upstart 1.12.1
- OpenStack (Icehouse) 2014.1
- Puppet 3
- Xen 4.4 ( only x86 and x64)
- Ceph 0.79
- Qemu 2.0.0 hardware emulator
- Open vSwitch 2.0.1
- Libvirt 1.2.2
- LXC 1.0
- MAAS 1.5
- Juju 1.18.1
- StrongSwan IPSec
- MySQL (community alternatives MariaDB 5.5 , Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5, MySQL 5.6 also )
- Apache 2.4
- PHP 5.5
Download Ubuntu 14.04 Server ISO Images
The installation ISO image can be downloaded using following link for x64 bit system only.
The scope of this tutorial is to present a classic installation of Ubuntu 14.04 Server made from a CD media or an USB bootable stick and also, a basic installation of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) packages stack with basic configurations.
Step 1: Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Server
1. Create a bootable CD/USB image. After system booting sequence choose your media bootable type from BIOS options ( CD/DVD or USB drive ). On the first prompt choose your Language end hit Enter.
Select Language
2. On next screen choose Install Ubuntu Server and hit Enter.
3. Next select your System default Language and also Installation process Language.
Choose Language
4. If your country is nor listed in default Location options choose Other, select your Continent and then your Country.
Select Continent
5. Next select your locales, Try choosing a general one like UTF-8 encoding so later you won’t have problems with keyboard.
Select Locals
6. On next prompt configure your Keyboard – again on servers you should choose a general keyboard Language. Also in this stage the installer can automatically detect your keyboard Layout by pressing a series of keys so be advised to choose No and setup English as default language.
Select Keyboard Language
7. After some additional software components are loaded for the installation process to continue. if your server is connected to network, and you run a DHCP server on your directly connected network the installer automatically configures network settings with ones provided from the DHCP server.
Because a server offers public or private network services, the network setting (especially the IP address) must always be static configured.
Loading Additional Components
8. If you get the same result on network hostname prompt press Tab key, choose Go Back and then Configure network manually.
Enter Hostname
9. On next prompt series enter your network interface settings: IP address, netmask, gateway and DNS name servers.
Enter IP Address
Enter Gateway
10. Setup your system hostname – you can also enter your FQDN. Be advised to choose your system hostname wisely and unique because some programs highly depend on this.
Enter Network Hostname
11. Now is time to setup your administrative user. On Ubuntu this user replaces the root account and has all root account powers by employing sudo. Enter your username and hit on Continue.
Enter User Name
12. Enter your password twice and for security reasons you should always choose a strong one on servers ( at least 12 characters including upper, lower, numerical and special).
Re-enter Password
In case you used a weak password the installer will alert you. If you are on a test server then choose Yes and continue further.
Install Uploadprogress Ubuntu 14.04
13. If your server contains sensitive, secret or important data on Users home partition the next screen offers the option to secure all data by Encrypting home directory. If this is not the case choose No and hit Enter.
Encrypt Home Directory
14. If while installer runs and your network interface card has Internet connectivity the installer will automatically detect your Location and setup your correct time zone. If the provided time is not correctly setup you have the option to choose it manually from a list else choose Yes and press Enter.
15. The hard-disks Partition table is one of the most sensitive subjects involving a server because here you have a lot of tweaking to do depending on your server final destination type web server, databases, file sharing NFS, Samba, application server etc.
- For example if redundancy, fail-over and high-availability is needed you can setup RAID 1, if your space grows fast you can setup RAID 0 and LVM and so on.
- For a more general use you can just use the Guided option with LVM, which is a customized option made by developers.
- For a production environment you probably should have LVM, software or hardware RAID and separate partitions for /(root), /home, /boot and /var ( the /var partition has the most fast growing rate on a production server because here are logs, databeses, applications meta info, servers caches and others located.
So on Partition Disks choose Guided –user entire disk and set up LVM -> select your disk to partition and accept partition table.
Partition Disks
Write Changes to Disks
16. After the partition table has been written to disk the installer once again prompts you with a partition review. Accept the Partition Table and hit Yes.
If you like to make some changes to this Partition Table you can select No and edit your partitions.
Partition Overview
17. After all hard-disk partitions had been written to disk the installer starts copying data software to disk and then reaches HTTP proxy option. If you don’t access Internet through a proxy leave it blank and Continue.
Configure Package Manager
18. Next the installer scans the CD image for software packages and reaches Updates options. Choose No automatic updates because on servers you should try manual update the system.
Configure Tasksel
19. Now the base system is installed but the installer invokes tasksel package which helps you to install some server packs before finishing. For a better control over your server choose only OpenSSH server by pressing Space bar key while others will be installed and configured later and choose Continue.
20. The selected packages are being installed while the last option is displayed on your monitor demanding to Install GRUB to MRB. Because the system can’t boot on his self without GRUB, choose Yes.
Install GRUB
21. Once the GRUB boot loader is installed the installation process reaches it’s end. Remove your media installation drive (CD/DVD,UDB) and hit Continue to reboot.
GRUB Boot Menu
Congratulations! Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server edition is now installed and ready to rock on your brand new metal or virtual machine.
Ubuntu 14.04 Iso Download
Step 2: Basic Network Configurations
For now only the Core server packages are installed and you can’t really offer network services for your network.
In order to install software login to your server console for now and verify some basic configurations like network connectivity, settings, startup daemons, software sources, updates and others by running a series of Linux commands.
22. View system load and basic information – After login with your credentials this information is presented by default MOTD. Also top and htop commands are useful.
23. Verify network IP addresses using following command.
Verify IP Address
24. Verify internet connectivity: run ping command against a domain name ( this will test TCP/IP stack and DNS ).
If you get “unknown host“ message, edit your ‘/etc/resolv.conf’ file and add the following.
Confirm Name Servers
For permanent changes edit ‘/etc/network/interfaces‘ file and add dns-nameserver directive.
25. Verify machine hostname using following command.
Verify Hostname
26. To enable or disable init daemons on run-levels install and run ‘sysv-rc-conf‘ utility which replaces chkconfig package.
27. To start, stop or verify a service (daemon) run the following commands.
28. See server processes, open connections ( listen state ).
29. To edit software repositories, open ‘/etc/apt/sources.list‘ file.
Edit Repositories
Import new repositories keys with the command.
30. Update system.
Step 3: Install LAMP Stack
LAMP acronym stands for Linux OS, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB databases, Php, Perl or Python programming languages used for generating dynamic webpages. All of this components are free and Open-Source software and are suitable for building dynamic websites or other web applications and are the most used platforms on Internet today (Last year Apache was estimated to serve over 54% of all active websites).
31. LAMP can be installed step by step or using just one single command.
While is installing enter and confirm mysql databse password.
Repeat Password
32. To confirm php status create a ‘info.php‘ file in ‘/var/www/html’ server path with the following content.
33. Then open a browser and enter your server IP address or http://server_address/info.php.
PHP Information
Ubuntu 14.04 and LAMP is an excellent platform to deliver network services, develop all kind of dynamic or static websites, complex web applications with the help of Apache CGI, all of this made with a minimum financial impact using Free and Open Source software and the latest technologies.