I finally finished re-building a development CentOS LAMP server. More importantly, and the primary purpose of the whole exercise, is that I finished my guide to building a CentOS LAMP server. I am happy to now post said guide on this blog (under Articles), for everyone to read and abuse as they please!
So here you go… may I present Blake's CentOS LAMP Server Guide, single-page edition, and the perhaps friendlier multi-page edition.
The guide covers the basics of building up a CentOS box to use as a remotely-administered LAMP server, including installation and configuration of PHP, Apache and MySQL. Other goodies are in there too, like mail server setup with Postfix/Postgrey/Dovecot. Keep in mind this guide was written from my point of view, and contains the ways that I like to do things. I keep my basic LAMP stuff pretty slim for maximum performance, so you'll see some installations from source in there to help keep things tight.
Let me know if the guide is useful! I'm hoping to get Google to pick it up and get some comments going on the various ways people set up their own LAMP boxes.
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Very nice!
Hello,
Following your guide on a few CentOS 5.2 install. Running the yum remove command listed in 2.3.1 also removes yum itself – Removing for dependencies: yum, yum-metadata-parser, yum-updatesd.
Chris
I've gone line by line and found the one thats causing yum to be removed. – "yum remove indexhtml" (4th line from the bottom) Typo?
Hi Chris,
That's interesting. I'm definitely running CentOS 4.6 with yum installed, but indexhtml removed. If it's being stubborn you might as well just leave it on there, it's a very small package that's not really used by anything special. I wrote the guide with CentOS 4 installs, so there must be something slightly different.
Any chance of getting a pdf version?