Howto- Install LAMP server in Fedora 17

WRITTEN BY MEL KHAM ON MAY 30, 2012. POSTED IN FEDORA, LINUX TUTORIALS

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses
Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database
management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.

In this post i will show you the steps to install LAMP server in Fedora 17 “Beefy”

1- Install Mysql Server

yum install mysql mysql-server

Start and Enable Mysql service

systemctl start mysqld.service

systemctl enable mysqld.service

Make Mysql password with :

mysqladmin -u root password [your_password_here]

Check the connexion to the databae server with:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

2- Install HTTPD and PHP

a- Install Apache (httpd)

to install Apache Server:

yum install httpd php php-common

Start and enable httpd service

/etc/init.d/httpd start

# OR #

service httpd start

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

b- Install PHP Modules

yum install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo

php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-
xml

Check php page:

vi /var/www/html/info.php and add

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

save and open browser to check : http://ip/info.php

3- Install PhpMyAdmin

yum install phpmyadmin

restart Apache:

service httpd restart

Check the phpmyadmin page

http://ip/phpmyadmin

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