[CentOS] install LAMP

[Matt Hyclak]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:54:03AM -0800, Hiep Nguyen enlightened us:
> >On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> all done. now, how do i force apache & mysql servers start up whenever the 
> box boot?
> 

I would suggest reading the Deployment Guide
(http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/) which will answer
many of these questions. 

A place for you to start on this particular question would be the man page
of the chkconfig command.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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