LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) stack is the most popular combination used for web development in linux. php.net says it is powering from your blog to the largest social network website in the world. Fedora 20 is shifted from mysql community edition to most compatible free software mariadb, created by the creators of mysql database.
Install LAMP on Fedora 20
Installing the Apache server, PHP, Mysql (mariadb) on Fedora 20 is a fairly easy. Execution of some commands on the command terminal will do the thing.
Open Terminal. change to root
su -
yum groupinstall "Web Server"
yum install-server mariadb
Start the services httpd and mysqld
service httpd start service mysqld start
The configure if we want to start automatically
chkconfig - level 345 httpd on chkconfig - level 345 mysqld on
And then use this command to help us configure mysql
mysql_secure_installation
Install phpMyadmin
yum install phpMyAdmin
or you can just download phpMyAdmin and extract to /var/www/html folder and then access http://localhost/phpMyAdmin
Enable .htacces on fedora 20
Edit the httpd configuration
gedt /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
search .htaccess
change
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All
then save and close
service httpd restart
PHP Set Desired timezone
gedit /etc/php.ini
search for date.timezone
and remove the ; at the starting of line. then fill the appropriate timezone on the quotes. to get the time zone data go to
http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone =’Asia/Colombo’
then save the file and restart httpd service .
PHP Modules
PHP also has a variety of useful libraries and modules that you can add onto your server. You can see the libraries that are available by typing:
yum search php-
Terminal then will display the list of possible modules. The beginning looks like this:
php-fpdf-doc.noarch : Documentation for php-fpdf
php-libvirt-doc.noarch : Document of php-libvirt
php-pear-Auth-radius.noarch : RADIUS support for php-pear-Auth
php-pear-Auth-samba.noarch : Samba support for php-pear-Auth
ice-php-devel.i686 : PHP tools for developping Ice applications
ice-php-devel.x86_64 : PHP tools for developping Ice applications
perl-PHP-Serialization.noarch : Converts between PHP's serialize() output and
: the equivalent Perl structure
php-IDNA_Convert.noarch : Provides conversion of internationalized strings to
: UTF8
php-Kohana.noarch : The Swift PHP Framework
php-LightweightPicasaAPI.noarch : A lightweight API for Picasa in PHP
php-PHPMailer.noarch : PHP email transport class with a lot of features
php-Smarty.noarch : Template/Presentation Framework for PHP
php-ZendFramework.noarch : Leading open-source PHP framework
php-ZendFramework-Auth-Adapter-Ldap.noarch : Zend Framework LDAP
: Authentication Adapter
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Apc.noarch : Zend Framework APC cache backend
To see more details about what each module does, type the following command into terminal, replacing the name of the module with whatever library you want to learn about.
yum info name of the module
Once you decide to install the module, type:
sudo yum install name of the module
You can install multiple libraries at once by separating the name of each module with a space.