Installing PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 LTS

Hello Beginners,

Hopefully most of the Sys Admin kids won't consider about LTS (Long Term Support) or EOL (End Of Life) on product.

Every product have it's version and its end of life, you can see about EOL of php by following link.

http://php.net/supported-versions.php
http://php.net/eol.php

As same Ubuntu have

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Okay now, why we discuss about it,
Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS is latest product of Ubuntu which have Long Term Support, PHP 5.5 is php version support by Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, that means php in it's EOL. So it's good to install Ubuntu 14.04.4 with PHP 5.6

Normal repo of Ubuntu don't have PHP 5.6, so we can do following steps to install PHP.

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install php5
$php5 -v

That's it.

Enabling Modules in PHP5 & Apache2 @ Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

Usually beginners of LAMP administrator having trouble to installing and enabling modules of PHP and Apache2

In older days we can do this by config page or by linking modules location to PHP or Apache module enable location, but we can do same with following comments easily, Please note this is advisable if you using Ubuntu repository to install packages.

Enabling module for Apache2

$sudo a2enmod module_name

Ex.

$sudo a2enmod rewrite

Enabling module for PHP5

$sudo php5enmod module_name

Ex.
$sudo php5enmod mcrypt