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Contents
Setup
Step OneInstall Apache
How to nd your Servers IP address
Step TwoInstall MySQL
Step ThreeInstall PHP
PHP Modules
Step FourRESULTS: See PHP on your Server
November 6, 2012
Beginner

How To Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

on Fedora
Tagged In: My Sql, Apache, Php, Lamp Stack, Fedora

About LAMP
LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for
Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since the server is already running Fedora, the linux part is taken care of. Here is
how to install the rest.

Setup
Before you start installing the LAMP programs, you should rst download and install all of the updates with yum
update:
yum update

Step OneInstall Apache

Apache is a free open source software which runs over 50% of the worlds web servers.
To install apache, open terminal and type in this command:
sudo yum install httpd

Once it installs, you can start apache running on your VPS:

sudo service httpd start

Thats it. To check if Apache is installed, direct your browser to your servers IP address (eg. http://12.34.56.789).

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You should see the default Fedora page

How to nd your Servers IP address

You can run the following command to reveal your servers IP address.
ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }'

Step TwoInstall MySQL

MySQL is a powerful database management system used for organizing and retrieving data on a virtual server
To install MySQL, open terminal and type in these commands:
sudo yum install mysql mysql-server
sudo service mysqld start

During the installation, MySQL will ask you for your permission twice. After you say Yes to both, MySQL will install.
Once it is done installing, you can set a root MySQL password:
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

The prompt will ask you for your current root password.
Since you just installed MySQL, you most likely wont have one, so leave it blank by pressing enter.
Enter current password for root (enter for none):
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Then the prompt will ask you if you want to set a root password. Go ahead and choose Y and follow the
instructions.
Fedora automates the process of setting up MySQL, asking you a series of yes or no questions.
Its easiest just to say Yes to all the options. At the end, MySQL will reload and implement the new changes.
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.

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Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

... Success!
Cleaning up...
All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.
Thanks for using MySQL!

Step ThreeInstall PHP

PHP is an open source web scripting language that is widely used to build dynamic webpages.
To install PHP on your virtual private server, open terminal and type in this command:
sudo yum install php php-mysql

Once you answer yes to the PHP prompt, PHP will install itself.

PHP Modules
PHP also has a variety of useful libraries and modules that you can add onto your server. You can see the libraries
that are available by typing:
yum search php-

Terminal then will display the list of possible modules. The beginning looks like this:
php-fpdf-doc.noarch : Documentation for php-fpdf
php-libvirt-doc.noarch : Document of php-libvirt
php-pear-Auth-radius.noarch : RADIUS support for php-pear-Auth
php-pear-Auth-samba.noarch : Samba support for php-pear-Auth
ice-php-devel.i686 : PHP tools for developping Ice applications
ice-php-devel.x86_64 : PHP tools for developping Ice applications
perl-PHP-Serialization.noarch : Converts between PHP's serialize() output and
: the equivalent Perl structure
php-IDNA_Convert.noarch : Provides conversion of internationalized strings to
: UTF8
php-Kohana.noarch : The Swift PHP Framework
php-LightweightPicasaAPI.noarch : A lightweight API for Picasa in PHP
php-PHPMailer.noarch : PHP email transport class with a lot of features
php-Smarty.noarch : Template/Presentation Framework for PHP
php-ZendFramework.noarch : Leading open-source PHP framework
php-ZendFramework-Auth-Adapter-Ldap.noarch : Zend Framework LDAP
: Authentication Adapter
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Apc.noarch : Zend Framework APC cache backend

To see more details about what each module does, type the following command into terminal, replacing the name
of the module with whatever library you want to learn about.
yum info name of the module

Once you decide to install the module, type:

sudo yum install name of the module

You can install multiple libraries at once by separating the name of each module with a space.
Congratulations! You now have LAMP stack on your droplet!
We should also set the processes to run automatically when the server boots (php will run automatically once
Apache starts):
sudo chkconfig httpd on
sudo chkconfig mysqld on

Step FourRESULTS: See PHP on your Server

Although LAMP is installed on your virtual server, we can still take a look and see the components online by
creating a quick php info page
To set this up, rst create a new le:
sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php

Add in the following line:

<?php
phpinfo();

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?>

Then Save and Exit.

Restart apache so that all of the changes take eect on your virtual server:
sudo service httpd restart

Finish up by visiting your php info page (make sure you replace the example ip address with your correct one):
http://12.34.56.789/info.php

It should look similar to this:

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chexed 3 months
Been using windows so long my mind continuously replaced "ifcong" with "ipcong" until nally realizing
someones "typo" that I realized was not a typo at all. IFcong, not IPcong. Just wanted to point that out for
other Windows long-timers.
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chexed 3 months
Oh yeah, I never did get "ifcong eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }'" to work... instead I used "ifcong" by
itself and it worked ne.

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about 1 month
Fedora doesn't always use eth0 as the default Ethernet port, usually it is em1 so the command would be "
ifcong em1 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }' " A useful command I use is " ifcong | grep -v 'inet6\|127.0.0.1' |
grep inet " optionally with | awk '{print $2}' at the end as this works regardless of the Ethernet port name. If
you are new to Linux you might think this takes a long time to type out and your right but you can add this as
an alias to you .bashrc le that is in your home directory. Add the following code to .bashrc, restart your
terminal then when you want your ip address just type ip alias ip="ifcong | grep -v 'inet6\|127.0.0.1' | grep
inet | awk '{ print $2 }'"
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Daniel about 1 month

I can't get the mySQL service to start. It also only asked me to give it permission once during the mySQL
install. Am I doing something wrong?
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Kamal Nasser about 1 month

@Daniel: What do you see if you try to run
sudo service mysqld start

?
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dheeraj08515 about 1 month

I get>>>>>>>>>> bash: service: command not found
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Kamal Nasser about 1 month

@dheeraj08515: Does replacing
service

with
/sbin/service

x it?
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