David Bomba

So we’ve setup our server, it is up to date, and root login has been disabled. Now to setup our webserver:

yum install httpd

We’ll assume you’ll be hosting more than one site so will be using Virtual Hosts, lets keep all the V-Host files in one file to make editting websites later on easier.

Lets edit the Vhost file

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf



ServerAdmin admin1@email.com
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com/public_html/
ErrorLog /srv/www/domain.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /srv/www/domain.com/logs/access.log combined



Replace domain.com with your domain name, and insert your email address in the ServerAdmin section.

Now add in your domain web directories

mkdir -p /srv/www/domain.com/public_html
mkdir -p /srv/www/domain.com/logs


now lets start up the web server!

/etc/init.d/httpd start
/sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on


If all has gone well you should see the green OK box come up. To check that its worked, open up your browser and paste in the IP address, (of course make sure there is a html file in there!) and your web server should be alive!

Mysql install, execute the following commands and follow the prompts

yum install mysql-server
/sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation


PHP Install

yum install php php-pear
yum install php-mysql


Restart Apache to activate PHP

/etc/init.d/httpd restart


Check that php has been installed successfully edit a file like this

nano phpinfo.php


and insert

Open your browser and navigate to this file http://youripaddress/phpinfo.php you should see something like this

phpinfo