How to install PHP on ubuntu

The most reliable way to install PHP on ubuntu is using ondrej/php PPA repository.

At first, it makes sense to upgrade installed packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Also, install software-properties-common package to make add-apt-repository command available.

sudo apt install software-properties-common

Next need to add ondrej/php PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Now we are ready to install PHP.

sudo apt install php8.0

Note that you can specify PHP version to be installed - just change 8.0 to any other version you need.

Installing php8.0 package will also install a module for apache2. If you are going to use nginx as a webserver install php8.0-fpm package than:

sudo apt install php8.0-fpm

Also you can install CLI version if you are not going to use any webserver:

sudo apt install php8.0-cli

To verify installation use the next command:

php -v

PHP 8.0.13 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2021 09:50:43) ( NTS )
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