installing Apache MySQL PHP on a CentOS 5.2 VMWare image

install apache and php

ref: http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/2/6/centos-installing-apache-and-php5
install apache w/ ssl support: sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl
launch apache: sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start
browse to your vm’s address (run ifconfig in the vm if you don’t know the address)
if your browser can’t find the address, write an iptable rule to allow access to port 80:
- ref: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-rhel-linux-open-port-using-iptables/
- open the iptable definition file: vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
- plug in the new rule: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT
- note: the leading ‘-’ in the rule is intentional
- restart the iptables process: /etc/init.d/iptables restart
install php: sudo yum install php-common php-gd php-mcrypt php-pear php-pecl-memcache php-mhash php-mysql php-xml
reload apache: sudo /etc/init.d/httpd reload

set up mysql

ref: http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/4/7/centos-installing-mysql-with-rails-and-php-options
as per the article above, install mysql: sudo yum install mysql-server mysql mysql-devel
launch the mysql daemon: sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start
set a root user/password: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ’new-password’
confirm new account was set up correctly: mysql -uroot -ppassword
then quit out of mysql: mysql> quit;

upgrade beyond stock centos support so we can get php version > 5.2.2, which is required for phpmyadmin

ref: http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/
import his GPG key: rpm –import http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
create a file called: /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.rep
paste the following into it: [utterramblings] name=Jason’s Utter Ramblings Repo baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
run yum update: yum update

install phpmyadmin

ref: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#quick_install
copy the distribution to your server from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23067&package_id=16462
un-zip and -tar the package, rename it to something more convenient, e.g., “phpmyadmin”, and cd into it
create a “config.inc.php” file by running: cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
define a random string for the “blowfish_secret” variable in config.inc.php, e.g., ‘weuriwuer9182309812iewuoriuwo’
in the browser, navigate to yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin
enter the mysql root username/password created above to log in