Ubuntu 26.04 Web Stack
LAMP, LEMP, and individual web stack components on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Apache, Nginx, MariaDB, MySQL, PHP, Redis, Memcached, Python, Java, Go, Rust).
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Part 1 of 14
Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
The LAMP stack is still the default starting point for most PHP-based web applications. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) ships with Apache 2.4.66, and the default…
10 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 2 of 14
Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.5)
Most production web stacks on Ubuntu run Nginx over Apache these days. Nginx handles static content and reverse proxying more efficiently, consumes less memory per connection,…
11 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 3 of 14
Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
MariaDB 11.8.6 now ships in Ubuntu 26.04’s main archive. That’s a first. Previous Ubuntu releases kept MariaDB in the universe repository, which meant Canonical didn’t directly…
9 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 4 of 14
Install Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Apache is still the workhorse behind most of the internet. Despite Nginx gaining ground over the past decade, Apache HTTP Server powers roughly a third of…
9 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 5 of 14
Install MySQL 8.4 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with both MySQL 8.4 and MariaDB 11.8 in its default repositories. If you need MySQL specifically (for compatibility with an existing stack,…
9 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 6 of 14
Install PHP 8.5 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx and PHP-FPM
PHP 8.5 ships in the Ubuntu 26.04 default repositories, so there is no PPA or third-party repo to set up. This release brings the pipe operator…
10 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 7 of 14
Install Redis 8.0 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 ships Redis 8.0 straight from the official repos, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds. Redis 8.0 is the first release under the…
9 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 8 of 14
Install Memcached on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Memcached is the caching layer behind most high-traffic PHP and Python applications. It stores key-value pairs in RAM, keeping database queries and API responses off the…
7 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 9 of 14
Install Python 3.14 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (pip, venv, pyenv, uv)
Python 3.14 ships as the default interpreter on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. No PPAs, no deadsnakes repository, no compiling from source. A fresh install gives you Python…
9 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 10 of 14
Install WordPress on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx, SSL and Backups
Running WordPress on a vanilla Ubuntu 26.04 box is still the fastest path to a fast, private site without a monthly hosting bill. Resolute Raccoon ships…
19 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 11 of 14
Install Java (OpenJDK 25) on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 ships OpenJDK 25 as the default JDK. That’s the latest non-LTS release, and it’s what you get when you install default-jdk. If you need…
8 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 12 of 14
Install Go (Golang) 1.26 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Go 1.26 ships in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repositories. For most use cases, apt install golang-go is all you need. If you want to pin a…
2 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 13 of 14
Install Rust on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (rustup + cargo)
Ubuntu 26.04 is the first Ubuntu release where Rust powers core system utilities out of the box. The sudo command is now sudo-rs (a memory-safe rewrite),…
3 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 14 of 14
Install Caddy Web Server on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Install Caddy 2.11 on Ubuntu 26.04 with automatic HTTPS via the internal CA, static file serving, and a reverse proxy verified from a client VM.
13 min read·Apr 2026