Instructions for installing LAMP Stack on CentOS 8

LAMP Stack stands for Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP. It is most widely used for hosting websites, blogs, etc.

Here's a small guide to installing and configuring LAMP Stack with the latest release of CentOS 8.

Install Linux

If your device does not have CentOS 8 installed, you can follow the instructions below to install it.

Now your device is ready with CentOS 8 and you can start installing Apache, MariaDB, PHP.

Note: The commands in the instructions below will be executed under the root user, if you are not the root user, add "sudo" to the beginning of each command.

Install Apache Web Server

The package name of Apache is httpd. Use the package manager yum to install

# yum install -y httpd

Start the Apache service using the command systemctl

# systemctl start httpd

Configure to allow Apache to be started with the system

# systemctl enable httpd

Check the status of the Apache service using the command below

# systemctl status httpd

Check the default Apache port

# ss -plnt | grep httpd

OUPUT

LISTEN   0         128                       *:80                     *:*        users:(("httpd",pid=9339,fd=4),("httpd",pid=9338,fd=4),("httpd",pid=9337,fd=4),("httpd",pid=9335,fd=4))

Accordingly, the default port Apache uses is port 80.

By default, the firewall blocks incoming HTTP connections from outside machines. Therefore, to test or use the Apache web server, we need to configure the firewall to allow HTTP requests from external machines.

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
# firewall-cmd --reload

Check out the operation of Apache

Open your browser, enter in the search bar the server's IP address. You will get the result as an Apache test page. This test page confirms that Apache is working well.

The default Apache root document is / var / www / html, the main configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Additional configurations for the Apache web server are stored in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory

Install MariaDB

This tutorial will guide you to install MariaDB from the operating system repository. You can also install MariaDB from the archive of the MariaDB community.

READ: Install MariaDB 10.4.8 on CentOS 8

Use the following command to install

# yum install -y mariadb mariadb-server

Start the MariaDB Server service with the systemctl command

# systemctl start mariadb

Configuration allows the MariaDB Server service to start with the system

# systemctl enable mariadb

Check the status of MariaDB Server services

# systemctl status mariadb

OUTPUT

Install LAMP Stack on CentOS 8 - MariaDB Server Status

Secure MariaDB

Usage statement

# mysql_secure_installation

This command allows you to improve the security of installing MariaDB in the following ways:

Set a password for the root account.

Delete the root account accessible from outside localhost.

Delete anonymous user accounts.

Deleting the test database (by default can be accessed by all users, even anonymous users) and privileges that allow people to access the database whose name starts with test_.

OUTPUT

Install LAMP Stack on CentOS 8 - Secure MariaDB Installation

Install PHP

By default Apahe Web Server only supports HTML language. To have PHP support we will have to install the PHP package.

CentOS 8 uses PHP v7.2 by default. In case you want to use PHP v7.3 you can follow the following instructions

READ: Instructions to install PHP v7.3 on CentOS 8