install apache mysql php and_How to install Apache, PHP 7.2 and MySQL on CentOS&

This tutorial shows how to install an Apache web

server on CentOS 7 server with PHP (mod_php) and MySQL database.

The acronym LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.

This updated tutorial shows the installation of the latest PHP

versions (7.0, 7.1 and 7.2) on CentOS 7.4.

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial, I use the hostname server1.example.com with

the IP p 192.168.1.100.

These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them

where appropriate.

I will add the EPEL repo here to install latest phpMyAdmin as

follows:

rpm --import

/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*

yum -y install epel-release

To edit files on the shell, I'll install the nano editor. If you

prefer vi for file editing, then skip this step.

yum -y install nano

2 Installing MySQL / MariaDB

MariaDB is a MySQL fork of the original MySQL developer Monty

Widenius. MariaDB is compatible with MySQL and I've chosen to use

MariaDB here instead of MySQL. Run this command to install MariaDB

with yum:

yum -y install

mariadb-server mariadb

Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL

starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL

server:

systemctl start

mariadb.service

systemctl enable mariadb.service

Set passwords for the MySQL root account:

mysql_secure_installation

[root@server1 ~]#

mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL

MariaDB

SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP

CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the

current

password for the root user. If you've just

installed MariaDB, and

you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be

blank,

so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for

none): 

OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the

MariaDB

root user without the proper authorisation.

Set root password? [Y/n] New password: 

Re-enter new password: 

Password updated successfully!

Reloading privilege tables..

... Success!

By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing

anyone

to log into MariaDB 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] 

... 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] 

... Success!

By default, MariaDB 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] 

- 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.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] 

... Success!

Cleaning up...

All done! If you've completed all of the above

steps, your MariaDB

installation should now be secure.

Thanks for using MariaDB!

[root@server1 ~]#

3 Installing Apache

CentOS 7 ships with Apache 2.4. Apache is directly available as a

CentOS 7 package, therefore we can install it like this:

yum -y install httpd

Here a screenshot of the installation process.

Now configure your system to start Apache at boot time...

systemctl start

httpd.service

systemctl enable

httpd.service

To be able to access the web server from outside, we have to open

the HTTP (80) and HTTPS (443) ports in the

firewall. The default firewall on CentOS is

firewalld which can be configured with the firewalld-cmd

command.

firewall-cmd --permanent

--zone=public --add-service=http firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https

firewall-cmd --reload

Now direct your browser to the IP address of your server, in my

case http://192.168.1.100,

and you should see the Apache placeholder page:

4 Installing PHP

The PHP version that ships with CentOS as default is quite old (PHP

5.4). Therefore I will show you in this chapter

some options to install newer PHP versions like PHP 7.0 or 7.1 from

Remi repository.

Add the Remi CentOS repository.

rpm

-Uvh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Install yum-utils as we need the yum-config-manager utility.

yum -y install

yum-utils

and run yum update

yum update

Now you have to chose which PHP version you want to use on the

server. If you like to use PHP 5.4, then proceed to chapter 4.1. To

install PHP 7.0, follow the commands in chapter 4.2, for PHP 7.1

chapter 4.3 and for PHP 7.1, use chapter 4.4 instead. Follow just

one of the 4.x chapters and not all of them as you can only use one

PHP version at a time with Apache mod_php.

4.1 Install PHP 5.4

To install PHP 5.4, run this command:

yum -y

install php

4.2 Install PHP 7.0

We can install PHP 7.0 and the Apache PHP 7.0 module as

follows:

yum-config-manager --enable

remi-php70

yum -y

install php php-opcache

4.3 Install PHP 7.1

If you want to use PHP 7.1 instead, use:

yum-config-manager --enable

remi-php71

yum -y

install php php-opcache

4.4 Install PHP 7.2

If you want to use PHP 7.2 instead, use:

yum-config-manager

--enable remi-php72

yum -y

install php php-opcache

In this example and in the downloadable virtual machine, I'll use

PHP 7.2.

We must restart Apache to apply the changes:

systemctl

restart httpd.service

5 Testing PHP / Getting Details About Your PHP Installation

The document root of the default website is /var/www/html. We will

create a small PHP file (info.php) in that directory and call it in

a browser to test the PHP installation. The file will display lots

of useful details about our PHP installation, such as the installed

PHP version.

nano

/var/www/html/info.php