PHP Tutorial #2 - Installation

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Installation

There are many methods and installation packages available on the internet.
What I will be showing here are the one we used.

For Windows developer:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

Download the installation and install.
As of this tutorial, it was
WampServer 2.0c
Includes :
- Apache 2.2.8
- MySQL 5.0.51b
- PHP 5.2.6

For Linux developer:
For debian / knoppix /ubuntu based distribution:
Run this command in terminal / console:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-gd php5-mysql mysql-client mysql-server

The installation of MySQL will prompt you for root password.
This password will be mysql root user password, not your operating system root user password.
Therefor, you may enter a different password for security purpose.

Your root folder to localhost will be /var/www/

For CentOS / Redhat:
Run this command in terminal / console:

yum install httpd php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-devel php-xml

Note*: this section need further information...


Finalising:
Once Installed, you may test your installation by opening this url in your browser:
http://localhost/

To Test PHP,
Code this in notepad(windows) or gedit/mousepad (linux), and save it as test.php in the root of web folder (example: /var/www/test.php)

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Next, test it on your browser as http://localhost/test.php
You shall see a page that look like this:




Misc. Info:
Important files involving web:
/etc/hosts - management of domain to ip
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default (ubuntu / debian based) - virtual host control or other apache configuration
/etc/resolv.conf - dns server setting

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Further References:

• Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies
• Quick 'n' Easy LAMP Server For CentOS/RHEL
  

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