[CentOS] install LAMP

[Matt Shields]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote:
> hi all,
>
>  i'm not an expert on linux/centos, but i play with it and have a general
>  idea.  it's time for me to setup a centos box for development.  i rarely
>  install anything from source, except a few times in college when i have to
>  modify kernel for OS project.  but i guess i can learn now.
>
>  i just installed centos 5 with minimal installation.  next step is to
>  install LAMP w/ SSL.
>
>  i found http://lamphowto.com/lampssl.html, but i have questions before i
>  proceed.
>
>  is it better to install from source or rpm?  how easy it is to
>  upgrade/update if install from source?  it seems so much easy to
>  upgrade/update from rpm, well b/c i'm always do this way.
>
>  is there any other instruction (beside the one mentioned above) to install
>  LAMP w/ SSL?
>
>  appreciate your help/suggestion
>  t. hiep

It's better to stick to the RPMs to make it easier to upgrade.  If you
want an easy way to install LAMP you can run 2 commands

yum -y groupinstall "Web Server"
yum -y install mysql-server php-mysql

This will get Apache, MySQL, and PHP all installed.

-- 
-matt