pls test my LAMP installation - Linuxers

29 Jul 2007

      Please test my LAMP instalation aqnd let me know if you find any errors ....
this wud be really gr8 help
1. Installing Apache 2.2.3
a) Download the Apache 2.2.3 source files from http://httpd.apache.org
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) change the working directory to the directory containing the
extracted source files
d) Run the following command for basic apache installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
--enable-shared=max --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=so
--enable-shared=ssl --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/RPM/openssl-0.9.8d
make
make install
2. Installing PHP 5.2.0
a) Download the PHP 5.2.0 source files from http://www.php.net
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) change the working directory to the directory containing the
extracted source files
d) Run the following command for PHP installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-gd
--enable-soap --enable-sockets --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --enable-exif
e)Build the PHP configuration using the following command
make
f) Install PHP
make install
3. Installing MySQL 5.x
a) Download the MysQL source files from http://www.mysql.com
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) Create the mysql user and group using the following commands

    groupadd mysql
    useradd -g mysql -c "MySQL Server" mysql
d) Create a symbolic link to the MySQL source directory in a directory
of your choice. (I use /usr/local/). Here is an example of the same
ln -s /software/mysql-max-4.1.22-pc-linux-gnu-i686 /usr/local/mysql
e) Change the working directory to the symbolic link that you have
created in the server.
f) Execute the following command
./scripts/mysql_install_db

The above command will install the mysql and the test database
g) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql using the following command
chown -R root:mysql /usr/local/mysql
Where root is the user and mysql is the group
h) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql/data using the following command
chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
i) Copy the default configuration file for the expected size of the
database (small, medium, large, huge)
cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
    chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf
    chmod 644 /etc/my.cnf
j) Now we have to tell the system where to find some of the dynamic
libraries that MySQL will need to run. We use dynamic    libraries
instead of static to keep the memory usage of the MySQL program itself
to a minimum.
echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
    ldconfig
k) Now create a startup script, which enables MySQL auto-start each
time your server is restarted.
cp ./support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
    chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
    /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql on
l) Then set up symlinks for all the MySQL binaries, so they can be run
from anyplace without having to include/specify long    paths, , etc
cd
    cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
    for file in *; do ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/$file /usr/bin/$file; done
m) First, we will assume that only applications on the same server
will be allowed to access the database (i.e., not a    program running
on a physically separate server). So we'll tell MySQL not to even
listen on port 3306 for TCP connections   l ike it does by default.
Edit /etc/my.cnf and uncomment the
skip-networking
n) Start MySQL
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Warm Regards

Agnello . G .Dsouza
www.linuxitsolutions.org