Apache, MySQL and PHP Installation and Configuration

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Apache, MySQL and PHP Installation and
Configuration

• Chapter 1
• Apache Installation and Configuration

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Apache Installation

• Installing with Windows
• Go to apache website, and download Apache HTTP
  Server latest stable version.
• Chose the Win 32 Binary (MSI Installer) link to
  download.
• Click the MSI file to initiate the installation
  wizard for the Apache software.
• Click Next. You will see the Server Information
  screen.
• Enter the following information
• Domain name For example, domainname.com
• Server name For example, server.domainname.com
• Net administrators e-mail address
• Apache users

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Apache Installation

• Installing with Windows
• Click Next to select a setup type. Typical
  installation is recommended for beginners and
  will suffice for most needs. Advanced users may
  feel more comfortable choosing Custom setup.
• Click Next. The Destination Folder screen
  appears.
• If you do not want your Apache files saved in the
  default path, click Change and select an
  alternate path then click Next.
• Click Install to finish installation.

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Apache Installation

• Installing with Linux
• Go to apache website, and download Apache HTTP
  Server latest stable version.
• Grab the tarball, named something along the lines
  of httpd-2.0.x.tar.gz.
• Open a console window, and change the directory
  (cd) to the folder where you downloaded the
  tarball.
• Next, extract the tarball, and change to the
  directory it creates
• Configure the source
• Using the --prefix switch tells the installer
  where to put the Apache server after its built.
  For a complete list of configuration options, run
  ./configure -help.

tar xzf httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz cd httpd-2.0.52
./configure \ --prefix/usr/local/apache2
\ --enable-so \ --enable-mods-sharedmax
\ --enable-modulesmost
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Apache Installation

• Installing with Linux
• Compile the source
• Install the server
• Note that you will need to be logged in as
  superuser (root) to perform this step and the
  following steps in the Apache installation.
• Start the Apache daemon
• Add the command to start Apache to whatever boot
  scripts you like, so the server starts every time
  you reboot. For example

make
make install
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
echo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
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Apache Configuration

• Testing Installation
• Open browser and type
• If installation was successful you will see this
  thing
• If its not, you must check your error log by
  opening error.log, you can find here by default
  

http//localhost
It Works !
echo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
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Configuration

• Adding PHP
• In order for Apache to recognize a PHP file as
  one that needs to be parsed with the PHP engine,
  you need to first locate the following lines in
  your httpd.conf file
• Then add the following lines

AddType allows you to add to or override the
MIME configuration file mime.types for specific
file types. AddType application/x-tar
.tgz AddType image/x-icon .ico
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType
application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
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Configuration

• Adding PHP
• Add the PHP module into your httpd.conf program
  so that Apache can properly parse PHP. In your
  script, locate the following lines that contain
  Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
• Then add the following lines
• Make sure your path matches the location of this
  file, as determined during your installation.

... LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
...
LoadModule php5_module c/php/sapi/php5apache2.dl
l
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Configuration

• Document Root
• By default, the directory under which Apache
  looks for files is c\program files\Apache
  Group\Apache2\htdocs\. You can change this to
  whatever is applicable for your directory
  structure
• To point Apache to the new directory, you must
  change the document root in your httpd.conf file
  by following these steps
• Locate the section of the file that resembles
  this text
• Change the last line of this section to
• Notice that this uses forward slashes instead of
  backslashes.

DocumentRoot The directory out of which you
will serve your documents. By default, all
requests are taken from this directory, but
symbolic links and aliases may be used to point
to other locations. DocumentRoot C/Program
Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs
DocumentRoot C/Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache2/test
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Configuration

• Document Root
• Locate the section of the file that resembles
  this text
• Change the last line of this section to
• Save your file and restart Apache so it can
  recognize the changes you made to the config
  file. (Make sure you have created this directory
  before restarting Apache or you will get an
  Operation Failed! error.).

Note that from this point forward you must
specifically allow particular features to be
enabled - so if somethings not working as you
might expect, make sure that you have
specifically enabled it below. This
should be changed to whatever you set
DocumentRoot to. ltDirectory C/Program
Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocsgt
ltDirectory C/Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache2/testgt
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References

• References
• Anonymous.(n.d.). Apache HTTP Server
  Documentation Version 2.2. Retrieved from
  http//httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/.
• Achour, M., Betz, F. (n.d.), PHP Manual.
  Retrieved from http//www.php.net/download-docs.ph
  p.
• Anonymous. (n.d.). MySQL Reference Manual.
  Retrieved from http//downloads.mysql.com/docs/.
• Naramore, E., Gerner, J., Le Scouarnec, Y.,
  Stolz, J., Glass, M. K. (2005). Beginning PHP5,
  Apache, and MySQL Web Development. Indianapolis,
  IN Wiley Publishing, Inc.