Setting up a LAMP Stack in Fedora 14

Setting up a LAMP Stack in Fedora 14 :

·  Sunday, August 21, 2011

·  M.Baran Mahamood

LAMP Stack :

1. Linux

            2. Apache

3. MySql

4. PHP

In this post let us see how to setup a LAMP Stack. LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

            Setting up this LAMP stack is essential for you to design websites and test it in your local computer.

1. Installing MySQL 5

To install MySQL type the following command in the Terminal:

yum install mysql mysql-server

In order to make MySQL start automatically whenever the system boots, type

chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on

To Start the MySQL server

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

To set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!) Run

mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

To reset password for MySQL enter,

mysql_secure_installation

The intial password for 'root' is nothing.. So just press enter..It will prompt if you want to change it. Then press 'Y', current password "blank(press enter)" and enter the new password what you want..

2. Installing Apache 2

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

To install Apache 2 enter the following command

yum install httpd

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

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

To start Apache

/etc/init.d/httpd start

To check if it has been installed,

Go to the browser and enter http://localhost

Now direct your browser to http://localhost, and you should see the Apache2 placeholder page Apache's default document root is /var/www/html on Fedora, and the configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Additional configurations are stored in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory.

You must see a Fedora Test Page.

3. Installing PHP 5

Introduction:

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.

PHP can be deployed on most web servers and as a standalone interpreter, on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages(ASP) server-side script engine and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.

`           PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorfin 1995. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. PHP is free software released under the PHP License which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP.

PHP does not come with the basic installation of Fedora  so it requires a web server, php and mysql to be installed on the machine.

Enter the following command

yum install php

Then restart apache,

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

The default directory for all PHP files is /var/www/html.

So place any .php file there and then test it as http://localhost/YourFileName.php.

4. Installing MySQL (to be used with PHP)

Enter the following command

yum install php-mysql 

Restart the apache as mentioned in the previous step.

5. Installing PhpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. The most frequently used operations are supported by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc), while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.

To install PhpMyAdmin enter the following:

yum install phpmyadmin 

Restart Apache.

Thats it!!! Its done. Now you are ready to use LAMP... :) 

Create all your programs in /var/www/html/ and the output can be viewed in a web browser by giving the url as http://localhost/yourfilename.php

Note: if you couldnot create a file at /var/www/html then login as root user by issuing a command su

Hope this will be helpful for you!!!

 Stay tuned for updates. If you find any problem or have any suggestions for improvements, you can always mail me.

By M.Baran Mahamood