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

 
 
<VirtualHost domain.com:80>
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
</VirtualHost>

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

 
 
<?php phpinfo();?>

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

phpinfo