This app contains a ready to use LAMP installation. You can install it via the Hetzner Cloud Console or the Hetzner Cloud API.
LAMP describes a system which provides a Linux based Apache web server with PHP and MySQL database. All four components are open source projects.
L - Linux is the operating system.
A - Apache is the web server.
M - MySQL is the database system.
P - PHP is the programming language.
Getting started
Create your server on our Hetzner Cloud Console. Instead of an image, you will be able to choose the app that you would like to have preinstalled on your server.
LAMP is preinstalled when the image is booted, but it is not enabled.
In order to enable LAMP, first, please log into your server:
- Via SSH key, if you selected one when you created the server
- Via root password, which will be mailed to you if you created a server without selecting an SSH key
This will guide you through the process and give you additional Let's Encrypt support. If you choose to skip Let's Encrypt, you will still be able to activate it another time (see Activate Let's Encrypt post installation).
Hetzner Cloud API
In addition to the Hetzner Cloud Console you can also use the Hetzner Cloud API to set up a server with pre-installed LAMP stack.
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For example with a curl command via CLI
curl \ -X POST \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name":"my-server", "server_type":"cpx21", "image":"lamp"}' \ 'https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers'
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Or via hcloud-cli
hcloud server create --name my-server --type cpx21 --image lamp
Activate Let's Encrypt post installation
Let’s Encrypt provides digital certificates that are needed to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites.
To activate Let's Encrypt after the initial script has run, please follow the steps below.
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Run Certbot (preinstalled) with the Apache plugin
certbot --apache
It will guide you through the process of obtaining a valid SSL certificate.
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Restart Apache
systemctl restart apache2
Image content
Base OS
- Ubuntu 24.04
Installed packages
NAME | LICENSE |
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Apache | GPLv3 (Apache 2.0) |
MySQL | GPL |
PHP | GPL (Expat) |
Certbot | GPL (Apache 2.0) |
Perl | GPL |
Passwords
We use auto-generated passwords which are stored in:
/root/.hcloud_password
Links
For more information about the installed packages, please refer to their official documentation:
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