Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on a Linux Server in Under 10 Minutes
Apache, MySql and PHP; these three products are open source programs available for use on most well known operating systems. In this article I will explain how you can install Apache, MySql and PHP on a Linux box using yum in under 10 minutes.
1 – Checking and Removing Any Existing Installations of the 3 of Them
Run the following command to make sure that any existing installations of Apache, MySql or PHP are removed:
yum -y remove httpd mysqld mysql-server php
2 – Installing Apache
Run the following to install the Apache web server:
yum -y install httpd
3 – Installing MySql Server
Run the following command to install MySql Server:
yum -y install mysqld mysql-server
4 – Install PHP
Run the following command to install PHP:
yum -y install php php-mysql
5 – Installing PHP Libraries
PHP has many different libraries and add-ons which you want or need to utilize; in your case we want to install the PHP GD image library and the PHP IMAP library, to do this we’ll be using the following command:
yum -y install php-gd php-imap
Thats it – you have now AMP’d a server! All you need to do now is start the individual services, to do this run the following commands (individually):
service httpd start
service mysqld start
PHP will be seen by Apache as a library and so does not need to be started.
