If you are working any kind of PHP development, you’ll almost always be using Apache along with it. Here’s the quick and easy way to get PHP up and running on your Ubuntu box.
First, you’ll want to add the extra repositories to Ubuntu’s sources.list file.
By running Below Command
# apt-get update
From a command root shell, mean as a root super user you will run the following commands:
# apt-get install apache2
# apt-get install php5
# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Note that if apache is already installed you can omit the first line. Your web files will now be found in /var/www/