How to install LAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL in Linux) using Yum
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 ***
Posted at May 30th, 2007 by chua
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August 15th, 2007 at 7:18 am
I’ve been beating my head against the wall for three days trying to do what you just helped me do in five minutes.
thanks a lot!!! you saved me much heartburn
October 9th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Thanks for this article - it is very helpful. I have a question about installing PHP with yum: How do I tell yum which configuration of PHP I want? I need support for a few not-necessarily standard libraries. TIA - jstark
April 16th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Thank you. You helped this friend installing his JeOS based on CentOS for VMWare.
Apache2 and php installed. Working smooth.