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LAMP is short for L inux, Apache, M ySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you caninstall an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php)and MySQL support.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them whereappropriate.

2 Installing MySQL 5

To install MySQL, we do this:

yum install mysql mysql-server

Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL startsautomatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:

chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

Set passwords for the MySQL root account:

mysql_secure_installation

[root@server1 ~]# mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALLMySQL

SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the currentpassword for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, andyou haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none):OK, successfully used password, moving on...

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Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQLroot user without the proper authorisation.

Set root password? [Y/n]

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Thanks for using MySQL!

[root@server1 ~]#

3 Installing Apache2

Apache2 is available as a CentOS package, therefore we can install it like this:

yum install httpd

Now configure your system to start Apache at boot time...

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

... and start Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd start

Now direct your browser to http://192.168.0.100, and you should see the Apache2placeholder page:

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Apache's default document root is /var/www/html on CentOS, and the configuration fileis /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Additional configurations are stored in the

/etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory.

4 Installing PHP5

We can install PHP5 and the Apache PHP5 module as follows:

yum install php

We must restart Apache afterwards:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

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