Set locale

In /etc/default/locale, set the following

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Update apt-get

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$ sudo apt-get update

Install Nginx

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$ sudo apt-get install nginx

Try http://ip-address to see if nginx loads properly

Install MySQL Server

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$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Install PHP

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$ sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

Install phpmyadmin

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$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Create symlink of phpmyadmin with

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$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html

NOTE: Change nginx sites-available for php and phpmyadmin

Create New User for phpmyadmin

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$ sudo mysql --user=root mysql

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> CREATE USER ‘admin’@‘localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘admin’@‘localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Create swap file

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Check if swap exists with

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$ free

Create swapfile with

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$ cd /var
$ sudo touch swap.img
$ sudo chmod 600 swap.img
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=1024k count=1000
$ sudo mkswap /var/swap.img
$ sudo swapon /var/swap.img

Install Nodejs

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$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs