How to Install LAMP on CentOS/RHEL 7

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing a full-featured LAMP stack on a CentOS 7 system.

Note: The CentOS 7 Project has elected to replace the init service management daemon with the newer, systemd daemon for this latest release. In addition, this release of CentOS ships with MariaDB repositories instead of MySQL.

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Install REMI and EPEL Repositories:
REMI and EPEL repositories has the majority of updated packages. So its helpful to add these repositories before preparing to LAMP setup on CentOS/RHEL 7.

# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Install Apache:
The Apache Web Server is an extremely prevalent decision for serving website pages. Introduce Apache web server utilizing following command:

# yum --enablerepo=remi install httpd

Presently begin httpd service and enable to start on boot using below command.

# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd

Install MySQL:

First include MySQL yum repositories in your system using following command.

# rpm -Uvh http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm

Now install MySQL server and other dependency packages.

# yum install mysql-server

Now restart MySQL service and enable to start on system boot.

# systemctl start mysqld
# systemctl enable mysqld

Apply security on MariaDB furthermore set root user password.

# mysql_secure_installation

Installing PHP

PHP makes it conceivable to create dynamic and intelligent pages utilizing your own particular scripts and web improvement structures. Presently introduce php packages using following command.

# yum --enablerepo=remi install php
# yum install --enablerepo=remi php-mysql php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-pgsql php-gd

After installing php and other php modules restart Apache service.

# systemctl restart httpd

Check Version:

# php -v
PHP 5.4.38 (cli) (built: Feb 18 2015 16:36:53)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
# httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
Server built:   Jan 12 2015 13:22:31
# mysql -V
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.23, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper

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