Installation and Basic Configuration Apache, MySQL and PHP on CentOS 5.1 (64 bit)

These are the simple steps to Install and do basic configuration Apache 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.22 and PHP on a base install CentOS 5.1 x86_64.

Required Pack

Install the required package using yum;

yum install gettext httpd mysql mysql-server perl

yum install php php-mysql php-xml php-imap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-pecl-Fileinfo php-pecl-memcache php-pear-DB php-pear-File php-pear-Log php-pear-Mail-Mime php-pear-Auth-SASL php-pear-Date php-pear-HTTP-Request php-pear-Mail php-pear-Net-Sieve php-pear-Net-Socket php-pear-Net-SMTP

yum install openssl perl-Net-SSLeay

yum install php-devel gcc

Start the Service

Start Apache and MySQL daemon, and add them to startup script so it will survive reboot.

service httpd restart
chkconfig httpd on

service mysqld restart
chkconfig mysqld on

Standard MySQL First Step After Install

Run the mysql_secure script to do basic securing MySQL and give root password to your MySQL databases;

mysql_secure_installation

Apache and Basic Virtual Host Configuration

Edit the apache configuration file to fit your requirement.

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

###Modify

Listen vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz:80  <--Put your IP Address here

###Add

<Directory “/path/to/rootwwwdir/public_html”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory “/path/to/rootwwwdir/public_html”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Virtual Host Configuration

NameVirtualHost vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz:80

<VirtualHost vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz:80>
ServerAdmin hostmaster@magnet-id.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/rootwwwdir/public_html
ServerName virt1.magnet-id.com
ErrorLog logs/virt1.magnet-id.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/virt1.magnet-id.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz:80>
ServerAdmin hostmaster@magnet-id.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/rootwwwdir/public_html
ServerName virt2.magnet-id.com
ErrorLog logs/virt2.magnet-id.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/virt2.magnet-id.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

###Empty the file
/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf