How Install Apache and PHP

This guide shows howto install Apache HTTP Server (httpd) with PHP 5.3.3 and following modules:

·         PEAR

·         PDO

·         MySQL

·         PostgreSQL

·         Memcache

·         GD

·         XML

·         MBString

·         MCrypt

on Fedora 14/13/12/11/10/9/8/7/6, CentOS 5.4/5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.4/5.5/6systems.

Install Apache HTTP Server (httpd) and PHP 5.3.3

1. Change root user

su -

## OR ##

sudo -i

2. Install Remi repository

CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)

## Remi Dependency on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)

!! Down Load epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm, remi-release-5.rpm

rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh remi-release-5.rpm

3. Install Apache (httpd) Web server and PHP 5.3.3

Fedora 13 (12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7), CentOS 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5

yum --enablerepo=remi install httpd php php-common

4. Install PHP 5.3.3 modules

Select what you need: PEAR, PDO, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcache, GD, MBString, MCrypt, XML

Fedora 13 (12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7), CentOS 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-memcache php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

5. Start Apache HTTP server (httpd) and autostart Apache HTTP server (httpd) on boot

/etc/init.d/httpd start ## use restart after update

## OR ##

service httpd start ## use restart after update

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

6. Create test PHP page to check that Apache, PHP and PHP modules are working

Add following content to /var/www/html/test.php file.

<?php

    phpinfo();

?>

7. Check created page with browser

Access following address, with your browser. http://localhost/test.php

Enable Remote Connection to Apache HTTP Server (httpd) –> Open Web server Port (80) on Iptables Firewall (as root user again)

1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables file:

nano -w /etc/sysconfig/iptables

2. Add following line before COMMIT:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

3. Restart Iptables Firewall:

service iptables restart

## OR ##

/etc/init.d/iptables restart

4. Test remote connection

Access following address, with your browser. http://your.domain/test.php

·         To remove a previous PHP version:

# yum  list       php

# yum remove                        php

·         Apache root directory is: /var/www/html

 

Permanently redirect users to access the site WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix

1.   Create/Open a .htaccess file in the document root folder and add the following text replacing variables with appropriate values where necessary
# mod_rewrite
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # Enable mod_rewrite engine
  RewriteEngine on

  # WITH 'www.'
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^$uri\.$tld$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.$domain$1 [L,R=301]

  # WITOUT 'www.'
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.$uri\.$tld$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://$domain/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>


Done 
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