Install LEMP on Ubuntu

1. Install Nginx:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
- remove apache2
systemctl stop apache2
apt-get remove --purge apache2
apt-get install nginx

-start & enable nginx on boot
systemctl start nginx
systemctl enable nginx

systemctl status nginx

-set upload limit: nginx.conf
client_max_body_size 100m;

2. Install PHP-FPM
apt-get install -y php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-mbstring php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-zip

- Find php.ini: php --ini |grep Loaded
- In php.ini -> cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

systemctl restart php7.0-fpm
systemctl enable php7.0-fpm

- set upload limit in php.ini
upload_max_filesize = 100M
post_max_size = 100M

3. Install Mariadb
apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
systemctl start mysql
systemctl enable mysql
mysql_secure_installation

4. Install phpmyadmin
apt-get update
apt-get install phpmyadmin php7.0-mbstring php7.0-gettext

Fix:  #1698 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
use mysql;
update user set plugin='' where User='root';
flush privileges;