Introduction

The LEMP software stack is a group of software that can be used to serve dynamic web pages and web applications. This is an acronym that describes a Linux operating system, with an Nginx web server. The backend data is stored in MySQL and the dynamic processing is handled by PHP.

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install a LEMP stack on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. The Ubuntu operating system takes care of the first requirement. We will describe how to get the rest of the components up and running.

Note: The LEMP Stack can be installed automatically on your Droplet by adding this script to its User Data when launching it. Check out this tutorial to learn more about Droplet User Data.

Prerequisites

Before you complete this tutorial, you should have a regular, non-root user account on your server with sudo privileges. You can learn how to set up this type of account by completing steps 1-4 in our Ubuntu 14.04 initial server setup.

Once you have your account available, sign into your server with that username. You are now ready to begin the steps outlined in this guide. Continue reading Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 14.04 →