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User Guide For setup Google cloud server (Compute Engine virtual machine instance)

how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance.

• Create a virtual machine instance.
• Setup the LAMP stack on your instance.
• Install Phpmyadmin on your instance.
• Setup virtual host in your instance.

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com
2.  Go to Compute Engine from the left menu and create a new project 
3. Choose Account type Individual and tax information Unregistered Individual
4. Fill Name & Address & Card Details.
5. Create an instance
6. Fill the following details
7. 
8. Open SSH and write sudo –s press enter
9. sudo apt-get update
10. sudo apt-get install apache2  Press enter enter y and press enter again
11. sudo systemctl restart apache2
12. sudo apt-get install curl
13. sudo apt-get install mysql-server
14. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
15. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
16. sudo apt-get update
17. sudo apt-get install -y php7.2  or 7.4 or 8.0 as per your requirements (if without any version specify install latest version auto run these ) 
    1. All: sudo apt install php php-cli php-fpm php-json php-common php-mysql php-zip php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath
    2. PHP 7.2: sudo apt install php7.2-common php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-imagick php7.2-cli php7.2-dev php7.2-imap php7.2-mbstring php7.2-opcache php7.2-soap php7.2-zip php7.2-intl -y
    3. PHP 7.4: sudo apt install php7.4-common php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-imagick php7.4-cli php7.4-dev php7.4-imap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-opcache php7.4-soap php7.4-zip php7.4-intl -y
    4. PHP 8.0: sudo apt install php8.0-common php8.0-mysql php8.0-xml php8.0-xmlrpc php8.0-curl php8.0-gd php8.0-imagick php8.0-cli php8.0-dev php8.0-imap php8.0-mbstring php8.0-opcache php8.0-soap php8.0-zip php8.0-intl -y
18. sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
19. sudo systemctl restart apache2
20. sudo systemctl status apache2
21. sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php  and paste following line :- <?php phpinfo();?>
22. sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin apache2-utils
23. sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf  and paste following line on bottom of file :-                          Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
24. sudo service apache2 restart
25. sudo a2enmod rewrite
26. sudo apt-get install git
27. sudo a2enmod expires
28. sudo a2enmod headers
29. sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
30. sudo a2enmod cache_disk
31. sudo a2enmod rewrite
32. sudo apt-get install zip unzip
33. sudo systemctl restart apache2

If http://ipaddress/phpmyadmin/ is not working then run these commands:

1. sudo apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release apt-transport-https
2. sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin apache2-utils
3. sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext
4. sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf
5. sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin
6. sudo service apache2 reload

    Another Useful server command 

• To open port configuration file: –

         Run: nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:81>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/project_name/public

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        <Directory “/var/www/project_name/public”>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride All

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

• To Open Port  config file 
  • RUN : nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf
  • Add : Listen 81

• To Apache Server Restart:- sudo service apache2 restart
• To Clear apache server log: – > /var/log/apache2/error.log
• To check server error log: – cat /var/log/apache2/error.log
• To open php.ini file:- nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini