How to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP) on Centos 7/RHEL 7 Step by Step Guide

Introduction

After first time Downloading CentOS 7 iso file, I setup one virtual machine with minimal installation on Virtual Box and connected it to Bridge network, during installation the Network setting i chose to DHCP. After finishing installation process, and when the virtual machine was rebooted, i tried to find ip address on CentOS 7 box.

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See below what was the output :

 # ifconfig -a
-bash: ifconfig: command not found

 

My reaction was What????  That was strange, because first time I found there was no ifconfig tool installed by default.

Then I install net-tools using yum to make ifconfig available.

 # yum install net-tools

Ok now I am able to find my ip address with ifconfig.

 # ifconfig -a

Sample output:

enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.200  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:feba:3efb  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 08:00:27:ba:3e:fb  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 208  bytes 25610 (25.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 194  bytes 44890 (43.8 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 804  bytes 68976 (67.3 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 804  bytes 68976 (67.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

 

LAMP(Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP)

Famous LAMP stack is a software bundle containing Apache web-server, MySQL DB Server and PHP consist on Linux Operating system. LAMP is used for building completely open source free solution for dynamic websites.

LAMP Stands for :

L = Linux

A = Apache

M = MySQL

P = PHP

In this tutorial we will see how to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP) on Centos 7/RHEL 7

*Update: MariaDB is default database management system in replacement of MySQL in Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7.0.

 

 

We will complete this lab in several parts.

Part 1 : Installation of Apache Web-Werver with Basic Configuration

Part 2 : Install PHP support for Apache

Part 3 : MariaDB Installation

Part 4 : PHP MyAdmin Installation

 

Prerequisites:

• Root level access
• Centos 7/RHEL 7 with basic configuration
• IP settings should be static
• Internet connection

Lab Environment

CentOs 7.0
IP Address	192.168.1.200/24
HostName	lamp-srv.broexperts.com

Let’s begin the Installation of LAMP Server.

 

Part 1 : Installation of Apache Web-Werver with Basic Configuration