How to install a LAMP stack on Ubuntu server 16.04

A LAMP stack is a Apache web server that runs on Linux and has PHP and MySQL capabilities.
Firstly, we need to update the package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Installing the Apache web server:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Testing the web server:
Find the local ip address of the server:

ifconfig

Now when you visit this ip address in a browser you should see a page that looks something like this:

Installing PHP:

sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql

Installing MySQL:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Setting up MySQL:
When installing mysql you will be asked for a root password for the MySQL-server.