PHP development setup on Ubuntu machine

Install Apache

sudo apt update

sudo apt install apache2

Install PHP

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common wget curl lsb-release -y

https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt update

PHP 7.4 with common extensions

sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-fpm php7.4-bcmath php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-intl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-opcache php7.4-sqlite3 php7.4-xml php7.4-zip libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-common

PHP 8.1 with common extensions

sudo apt install php8.1 php8.1-cli php8.1-fpm php8.1-bcmath php8.1-curl php8.1-gd php8.1-intl php8.1-mbstring php8.1-mysql php8.1-opcache php8.1-sqlite3 php8.1-xml php8.1-zip libapache2-mod-php8.1 php8.1-common

PHP 8.2 with common extensions

sudo apt install php8.2 php8.2-cli php8.2-fpm php8.2-bcmath php8.2-curl php8.2-gd php8.2-intl php8.2-mbstring php8.2-mysql php8.2-opcache php8.2-sqlite3 php8.2-xml php8.2-zip libapache2-mod-php8.2 php8.2-common

PHP 8.3 with common extensions

sudo apt install php8.3 php8.3-cli php8.3-fpm php8.3-bcmath php8.3-curl php8.3-gd php8.3-intl php8.3-mbstring php8.3-mysql php8.3-opcache php8.3-sqlite3 php8.3-xml php8.3-zip libapache2-mod-php8.3 php8.3-common

PHP 8.4 with common extensions

sudo apt install php8.4 php8.4-cli php8.4-fpm php8.4-bcmath php8.4-curl php8.4-gd php8.4-intl php8.4-mbstring php8.4-mysql php8.4-opcache php8.4-sqlite3 php8.4-xml php8.4-zip libapache2-mod-php8.4 php8.4-common

PHP 8.5 with common extensions

sudo apt install php8.5 php8.5-cli php8.5-fpm php8.5-bcmath php8.5-curl php8.5-gd php8.5-intl php8.5-mbstring php8.5-mysql php8.5-sqlite3 php8.5-xml php8.5-zip libapache2-mod-php8.5 php8.5-common

For quickly toggling between versions of PHP, I have written a small bash script that can be helpful https://github.com/devfaysal/switch-php-version

Install Composer

https://getcomposer.org/download/

Install MySQL

sudo apt install mysql-server

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-22-04

Permissions

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo chown {your ubuntu username} /var/www

Install Git

sudo apt install git

Setup Virtual host

For the Laravel applications I have written a small bash script that can help create a whole Virtual host setup quickly https://github.com/devfaysal/laravel-vhost

Install Nodejs

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66166866/6150983 Download LTS version from https://nodejs.org/en (a file like node-v20.10.0-linux-x64.tar.xz will be downloaded)

sudo apt update

sudo apt install xz-utils

cd into the directory where the file node-v20.10.0-linux-x64.tar.xz downloaded

sudo tar -xvf node-v20.10.0-linux-x64.tar.xz

sudo cp -r node-v20.10.0-linux-x64/{bin,include,lib,share} /usr/

Check the version to confirm the installation

node --version npm -v