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.
Web Hosting UK said,
December 9, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
Thanks Josh
Nice article for those who dont prefer control panel on Linux Servers. Some more information on configuration of MySQL, PHP and Apache on installation is available in some other posts in this blog.