How to install LAMP (Linux, apache, php, mysql) – Blogging – Make It Easy?
How to install LAMP (Linux, apache, php, mysql)? Here is the simple way to create your own LAMP and starting blogging right away. The 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 will 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 successful.
* 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.
For automatic start of apache during your computer reboot, you need to check this chkconfig mysqld –list. If the results are
Then run this chkconfig mysqld on to make this on.
Then check chkconfig mysqld –list, it should be
Similarly check apache auto start chkconfig httpd –list and set using chkconfig httpd on

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