Many friends ask me how to install LAMP (Linux, apache, php, mysql).There are many ways to install LAMP. Here i teach you the most easiestway to install LAMP using yum program in CentOS.
Below are the steps to install LAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL in Linux) using Yum:-
Go to CentOSand download a copy of CentOS Linux and install it (i’ll not go thru the how to install CentOS with you here)
Once your CentOS is installed. Open a terminal (if you are using X-Window), and type yum install httpdand follow on screen instruction to install apache web server
Once apache web server has been installed, type yum install php
Once PHP installed successfully, type yum install mysql-server mysql
Once everything finish, type service httpd startto start your apache web server, screen will show you if web server service successfully started
type service mysqld startto start your mysql server
Once both services is running, you can point your browser to http://localhost and you should see a welcome page from CentOS
If you see that welcome page, you just installed everything successfull.
To test if php is running, go to /var/www/html and create an index.php file with the content below
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
and refresh your browser again. If you see a purple PHP informationpage showing all the php configuration variables, then php is runningnow.
Congratulation, you just successfully installed LAMP in your machine.