Installing LAMP
I'm running Fedora Core 3.
For the installation described in the kickstart file below, I only needed
discs
1,
2, and
3.
Kickstart file
This is a kickstart file you can use to install FC3, or just use it as a
guide while running the interactive installer. (Instructions for using the
file directly are here,
but I haven't tried doing that yet.)
My original file is in the commented-out parts. I've changed some options
slightly in the non-commented-out lines.
Change the "network" line below. At least the IP address and hostname.
Remove "--startxonboot" from the "xconfig" section.
[root@achilles ~]# cat anaconda-ks.cfg
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --card "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)" --videoram 65536 --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 --defaultdesktop kde
#xconfig --card "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)" --videoram 65536 --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 --startxonboot --defaultdesktop gnome
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1. --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 24.221.192.5,24.221.208.5 --hostname
#network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.11 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 24.221.192.5,24.221.208.5 --hostname achilles
rootpw --iscrypted $1$.58Ka3U2$cyWbET53wZOj82zGDnz60/
firewall --disabled
selinux --enforcing
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/Denver
bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --all
#part /boot --fstype "ext3" --onpart hda1
#part swap --onpart hda2
#part / --fstype "ext3" --onpart hda3
clearpart --all
part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size 100
part swap --recommended
part / --fstype "ext3" --size 100 --grow
# If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages will appear on
# virtual console 3.
#%packages
%packages --resolvedeps
@ editors
@ text-internet
@ gnome-desktop
@ dialup
@ base-x
@ printing
@ kde-desktop
@ server-cfg
@ admin-tools
@ development-tools
kernel
e2fsprogs
grub
%post
After installation
Fix the RPM-GPG key thingy:
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
Remove any previously-installed httpd and its dependencies.
rpm -q httpd
rpm -q --whatrequires httpd
I had httpd-suexec and system-config-httpd that depended on httpd. But httpd
also depended on httpd-suexec. To remove both at once
rpm -e httpd-suexec -e httpd
Download and
unpack (tar xzf [filename]) httpd (I got the
latest
2.0 version).
Here's my conf-httpd file:
./configure \
--enable-so \
--enable-rewrite \
--enable-setenvif \
--enable-mime \
--enable-mime-magic \
--enable-dir \
--enable-auth \
--enable-access \
--enable-alias \
--enable-status \
--enable-userdir \
--enable-vhost-alias \
--enable-env \
--enable-log-referer \
--enable-log-config \
--enable-log-agent \
--enable-headers
Make the script executable:
chmod +x conf-httpd
Build and install
conf-httpd
make
make install
Link to apachectl from the system bin directories.
ln -s /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl /usr/bin/apachectl
ln -s /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl /usr/sbin/apachectl
If you have installed an older version of MySQL from source and want to
remove it before installing the new version, go to the old version's source
directory (where you built it) and execute the following commands, replacing
the path in the third step with the path to your current MySQL install
directory.
make -n uninstall
make distclean
rm -rf /usr/local/mysql
Download and
unpack (tar xzf [filename]) the source. Go
here for a
different version of MySQL than 5.0.16. (I used
5.0.16.)
Update: 5.0.16 had a source packaging
bug
where the help tables were
not populated. So, there was no help available from the client, which isn't
terribly useful. So, I'd suggest getting
version 5.0.17.
(Actually, 5.0.17 had the same problem, so I don't know what to do about that.)
Here's my conf-mysql file:
CFLAGS="-03"
CXX=gcc
CXXFLAGS="-03 \
-mpentiumpro \
-mstack-align-double \
-felide-constructors \
-fno-exceptions \
-fno-rtti"
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-extra-charsets=complex \
--with-mysql-ldflag=-rdynamic \
--enable-thread-safe-client \
--enable-local-infile \
--enable-assembler
The option "--with-mysql-ldflag=-rdynamic" is described in the online
docs for version 5.0, section 24.2.3. It allows UDFs in dynamic modules.
Make the script executable:
chmod +x conf-mysql
Check for previous installations:
rpm -qa | grep -i MySQL
Create mysql user:
groupadd mysql
useradd -g mysql mysql
Build and install
conf-mysql
make
make install
Install the databases, and change the file permissions.
[src_dir]/scripts/mysql_install_db
chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
Start the server
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
If it doesn't start, make sure there isn't another mysql process already
running and using the server port. If there is, stop or kill the other
process first.
Then, after starting the server, change the root password:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h [hostname] password 'new-password'
If the second version doesn't work, include the "-p" argument, and it will ask
for your password. Use the password from the first step. (To include special
characters in the password, enclose it in single quotes.)
Config files:
/etc/my.cnf
[client]
port=3306
socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
[mysqld]
port=3306
socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
key_buffer_size=16M
max_allowed_packet=1M
[mysqldump]
quick
~/.my.cnf
[client]
user="[username]"
password="[password]"
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
set-variable = connect_timeout=2
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
Copy the start script to the /etc directory
cp /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server /etc/init.d
chkconfig --add mysql.server
Also, update ~/.bash_profile to include /usr/local/mysql/bin in PATH. Then
source it.
cd
vi .bash_profile
. .bash_profile
If you want to copy data from an old MySQL installation to this new one, you
can find instructions here.
These packages are required for using GD from PHP.
yum install libpng-devel
yum install zlib-devel
yum install libjpeg-devel
After installing the packages, make sure they're installed. If not, try
installing again.
rpm -q libpng-devel
rpm -q zlib-devel
rpm -q libjpeg-devel
Download
and unpack (tar xzf [filename]) archive. I got
5.1.1.
Here's my conf-php file:
./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib
Make the script executable:
chmod +x conf-php
Build and install.
conf-php
make
make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini
In /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf, at the very end, add
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
Find the DirectoryIndex line and add index.php (if you want that file served
by default):
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php
Also, I change my DocumentRoot: (comment out the old one)
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
Restart apache:
apachectl restart
