How to set up a LAMP stack on Centos8 / RHEL 8

Posted on Wednesday October 30-2019

In this tutorial we will install LAMP on Centos8 with FPM enabled. Here are the listed LAMP component which is going to be installed.

Application	Version	Description
httpd	2.4.37	Base Apache
mod_ssl & openssl	openssl-1.1.1	For TLS processing
mariadb-server & mariadb	10.3.11	The Database Server
php	7.2.11	Base PHP
php-mysqlnd	7.2.11	PHP MySQL Library
php-fpm	7.2.11	FPM (FastCGI Process Manager)
php-xml	7.2.11	PHP SimpleXML Parser
php-mbstring	7.2.11	PHP Multibyte String

Update System first

dnf -y update

Install Helper APP

dnf -y install nano curl wget bind-utils

Install LAMP with MariaDB

dnf -y install mariadb-server mariadb php php-fpm php-xml php-json php-mysqlnd php-mbstring php-opcache php-gd php-cli firewalld mod_ssl

Enable Load on Startup for httpd MariaDB and PHP-FPM

systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl enable php-fpm.service
systemctl enable mariadb.service

Configure Firewalld and Allow HTTP/HTTPS

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --reload

Create simple PHP Info page to verify PHP is working in Apache in the /var/www/html/info.php

<?php

phpinfo();

Fix the File permissions to purely configured as Non-Root User

chown -R apache:apache /etc/run/
chown -R apache:apache /var/www
chown -R apache:apache /etc/httpd

Start the Apache httpd server

systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl status httpd

Test It

# curl -I  http://localhost/        
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 05:20:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.37 (centos) OpenSSL/1.1.1
Last-Modified: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 05:16:20 GMT
ETag: "69-59619d551e9d9"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 105

PHP Info

You can also run the following command to list installed modules only:

php -m

Start & Configure MariaDB

systemctl start mariadb.service
systemctl status mariadb

Once MariaDB is started, complete the series of questions likeHow to Secure MariaDB by setting root password

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Video Demo

That's ALL (Nope )

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