[CentOS] install LAMP

Hiep Nguyen hiep at ee.ucr.edu
Mon Mar 3 16:54:03 UTC 2008


On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Matt Shields wrote:

> 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.

all done. now, how do i force apache & mysql servers start up whenever the 
box boot?

t. hiep



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