At this tutorial/guide/HowTo I will teach you how to install Apache (2.x) with PHP5-FPM and MySQL on CentOS 6. This setup is also well-known as “LAMP” where L stands for Linux, A for Apache, P for PHP and M for MySQL. This tutorial/guide/HowTo might work on CentOS 6.5 (Already test), the rest of it, i don’t know :p
I’m not responsible for any kind of failures or damage!!!
1. Installation of additional repositories
We need to import the Dag GPG key:
rpm --import https://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
Now we’ll install the rpmforge repo:
for 32bit:
wget https://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
for 64bit:
wget https://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
As PHP-FPM can’t be downloaded with the default CentOS repo we need the EPEL and the REMI repo:
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
for 32bit:
rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
for 64bit:
rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
REMI:
rpm --import https://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi rpm -ivh https://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
After that we need to install a plugin for yum that manages repo priorities:
yum install yum-priorities
Then
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Add “priority=10” to the [epel] section and save the file
Do the same for REMI repo:
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
2. Installation of MySQL 5
Install MySQL 5 with:
yum install mysql mysql-server
Then we need to add it to the services:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
Start the service:
service mysqld start
Run the secure setup to set a root password and a few others things:
mysql_secure_installation
Install Apache with:
yum install httpd httpd-tools
Add it to services
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
Start the service:
service httpd start
Apache’s default document root is /var/www/html for CentOS. The configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and additional configurations are saved in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory.
3. Installation of PHP-FPM
Install PHP-FPM and mod_fastcgi:
yum install php php-fpm mod_fastcgi
Add PHP-FPM to services:
chkconfig --levels 235 php-fpm on
Start the service:
service php-fpm start
Restart Apache:
service httpd restart
5. Configuration of Apache with PHP-FPM
Open the fastcgi.conf file:
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf
Add this to the end of the file:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.php AddHandler php5-fcgi .php Action php5-fcgi /php5-fcgi Alias /php5-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:9000 -pass-header Authorization
After that search after “FastCgiWrapper” and make sure it’s set to “off” then save the file.
The /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory must exist, so we create it:
mkdir /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
If mod_php is installed and enabled, we need to disable it so open the configuration at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
Comment out the AddHandler and AddType lines so it looks like here:
#PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. # LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5-zts.so #Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension. # #AddHandler php5-script .php #AddType text/html .php #Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory indexes. # DirectoryIndex index.php #Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print .phps files as PHP source code: # #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
Save the file and restart Apache:
service httpd restart
6. Install MySQL support for PHP
Install PHP packages and php-mysql for MySQL support:
yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mbstring php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc
Restart PHP-FPM to pickup the new components:
service php-fpm restart
Now you should have a working web server with Apache, PHP-FPM and MySQL.
Is MySQL not starting up?
Edit “my.conf” the MySQL configuration file with a text editor and paste our configuration.
-
Open “my.cnf”:
vi /etc/my.cnf
- Clean it (delete everything that is inside).
-
Paste my configuration:
[mysqld] default-storage-engine = myisam key_buffer = 1M query_cache_size = 1M query_cache_limit = 128k max_connections=25 thread_cache=1 skip-innodb query_cache_min_res_unit=0 tmp_table_size = 1M max_heap_table_size = 1M table_cache=256 concurrent_insert=2 max_allowed_packet = 1M sort_buffer_size = 64K read_buffer_size = 256K read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K net_buffer_length = 2K thread_stack = 64K
- Save the file
-
Start MySQL:
service mysqld start
Tunning FPM:
Open
/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
Change
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
to
listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock listen.owner = apache listen.group = apache
Open
/etc/httpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf
Change
FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:9000 -pass-header Authorization
to
FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -socket /tmp/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization
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