Many friends ask me how to install LAMP (Linux, apache, php, mysql). There are many ways to install LAMP. Here i teach you the most easiest way to install LAMP using yum program in CentOS.
Below are the steps to install LAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL in Linux) using Yum:-
- Go to CentOS and download a copy of CentOS Linux and install it (i’ll not go thru the how to install CentOS with you here)
- Once your CentOS is installed. Open a terminal (if you are using X-Window), and type yum install httpd and follow on screen instruction to install apache web server
- Once apache web server has been installed, type yum install php
- Once PHP installed successfully, type yum install mysql-server mysql
- Once everything finish, type service httpd start to start your apache web server, screen will show you if web server service successfully started
- type service mysqld start to start your mysql server
- Once both services is running, you can point your browser to http://localhost and you should see a welcome page from CentOS
- If you see that welcome page, you just installed everything successfull.
- To test if php is running, go to /var/www/html and create an index.php file with the content below
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
and refresh your browser again. If you see a purple PHP information page showing all the php configuration variables, then php is running now. - Congratulation, you just successfully installed LAMP in your machine.
* Example above install CentOS linux under custom mode where no package will be selected during the installation (very clean install – only require 1st Installation CD).
* Please make sure that your PC has Internet Connection on during the yum installation process.
** You can also install all the services at once using “yum install httpd php mysql-server mysql”
*** THIS IS SETUP IS JUST SUITABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES, DO NOT USE IT FOR PRODUCTION ***
@Kelly — found a solution to this on another forum:
“Simple you used ‘su’ and not ‘su -’……. please read ‘man su’ without the single quotemarks for the details.
When you use ‘su’ you inherit the users pathing, using ‘su -’ gives you (root) root’s pathing. Try; /sbin/service httpd status”
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/service-command-not-found-443383/
Ehm, may I add that instead of running 4 yum commands you can just run this:
yum install httpd mysql mysql-server php
And then it will install all 4 packages
Also, to make it even easier. You can also ease the setup of MySQL by running “mysql_secure_setup” after starting the mysql daemon.
I hope you will append these changes to your guide
Thanks a lot it’s very easy
thanks, but with me it keeps saying bash: service: command not found…
Thanks man, This really helpful for me. Thanks a lot