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Apache 2, MySQL 4.1 Alpha and PHP 4.3 on Red Hat Linux 9

This guide will walk you through installing and minimally configuring Apache 2 web server, MySQL 4.1 Alpha database and PHP 4.3 on a Red Hat linux 9 computer.

Apache 2, MySQL 4.1 Alpha and PHP 4.3 on Red Hat Linux 9

• Theses instructions should hold true for all Linux distros and most Unix variants.
  
  In the above scenarios (mostly UNIX), there will be some minor differences, such as dependencies, but you can gauge what you need by the package names included, as well as other additions that will be made from the instructions below.
  
  Let's get started...
  
  
  Boot up (Start) your Red Hat linux 9 pc and get to a shell, or drop to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2 (Ctrl-Alt-F7 will bring you back to X if you were originally there). Then either su - or login as root.
  
  Note: Replace the statements in CAPS with the actual information. For example, EMAIL_ADDRESS would be replaced with your actual email address.
  
  mkdir /packages
  cd /packages
  
  make sure you have wget installed:
  
  which wget
  
  if you do not see /usr/bin/wget , then:
  
  ftp updates.redhat.com
  logon: anonymous
  password: EMAIL_ADDRESS
  binary
  prompt
  cd 8.0/en/os/i386
  get wget-1.8.2-5.i386.rpm
  bye
  
  
  rpm -ivh wget-1.8.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  
  Note: For those without the Red Hat Linux 9 CDROM(s) in their posession->
  
  Please read first before you start executing commands until you get to the ----->
  
  The instructions below assume that if the main package is not installed, than dependencies are not either.
  
  Make sure to check to see if you have any or all of the packages needed to be installed, otherwise you will have wasted time downloading things that you already have installed.
  
  I also may have included 2 or 3 packages extra that may not need to be installed for this specific project, but it is good to have for future projects that you may encounter.
  
  You can do a: rpm -qa | grep PACKAGE_NAME , and look for those packages installed starting with/ have PACKAGE_NAME in them.
  
  For example, when looking at this line:
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  if you wanted to check if you had the package installed, then you would: rpm -qa | grep gcc , and look for similar and or matching output to the version number 3.2.2-5.
  
  For those with the CD's, you can insert the CDROM, and if it doesnt automount if for you, you can type: mount /mnt/cdrom . Then you can access the cd by: cd /mnt/cdrom , then ls (to list files).
  
  
  make sure you have make installed:
  
  which make
  
  if you do not see /usr/bin/make , then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/make-3.79.1-17.i386.rpm
  
  rpm -ivh make-3.79.1-17.i386.rpm
  
  
  make sure you have gcc installed:
  
  which gcc
  
  if you do not see /usr/bin/gcc , then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gcc-c++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gcc-gnat-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  
  
  make sure you have libgcc:
  
  rpm -qa | grep libgcc
  
  if you do not see packages with libgcc on output, then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libgcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  
  make sure you have glibc:
  
  rpm -qa | grep glibc
  
  if you do not see packages with glibc on output, then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  
  
  rpm -ivh glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
  
  
  rpm -ivh libgcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  
  rpm -ivh gcc-gnat-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh gcc-c++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
  
  
  
  make sure you have perl installed:
  
  which perl
  
  if you do not see /usr/bin/perl , then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/perl-5.8.0-88.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/perl-CPAN-1.61-88.i386.rpm
  
  
  rpm -ivh perl-5.8.0-88.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh perl-CPAN-1.61-88.i386.rpm
  
  
  make sure you have binutils installed:
  
  rpm -qa | grep binutils
  
  if you do not see packages with binutils on output, then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm
  
  rpm -ivh binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm
  
  
  make sure you have libtool installed:
  
  rpm -qa | grep libtool
  
  if you do not see packages with libtool on output, then (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL)):
  
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libtool-libs-1.4.3-5.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libtool-1.4.3-5.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/automake-1.6.3-5.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/m4-1.4.1-13.i386.rpm
  wget ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mktemp-1.5-18.i386.rpm
  
  
  rpm -ivh libtool-libs-1.4.3-5.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh libtool-1.4.3-5.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.rpm
  rpm -ivh automake-1.6.3-5.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh m4-1.4.1-13.i386.rpm
  rpm -ivh mktemp-1.5-18.i386.rpm
  
  
  --------------------->
  
  
  (each line starting with wget is one whole line (wget following a space than the URL))
  
  (each line that is a command is one whole line before the start of a new line. Each command line that is long, has a doublespace before the new line to eliminate confusion (excluding the wget lines, as it was just mentioned above)
  
  wget http://apache.mirrorcentral.com/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.45.tar.gz
  wget http://www.php.net/~jani/RC/php-4.3.2RC1.tar.gz
  wget ftp://mysql.secsup.org/pub/software/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.0-alpha.tar.gz
  
  
  cd /usr/src
  
  tar zxf /packages/httpd-2.0.45.tar.gz
  tar zxf /packages/php-4.3.2RC1.tar.gz
  tar zxf /packages/mysql-4.1.0-alpha.tar.gz
  
  
  
  cd httpd-2.0.45
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/apache
  make
  make install
  
  
  cd /etc/rc.d/
  
  echo /opt/apache/bin/apachectl start >init.d/apache2
  chmod u+x init.d/apache2
  
  
  echo /opt/apache/bin/apachectl stop >init.d/apache2_K
  chmod u+x init.d/apache2_K
  
  
  ln -s init.d/apache2 rc3.d/S99apache2
  ln -s init.d/apache2 rc5.d/S99apache2
  ln -s init.d/apache2_K rc3.d/K99apache2
  ln -s init.d/apache2_K rc5.d/K99apache2
  
  
  cd ../mysql-4.1.0-alpha
  
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
  
  make
  make install
  
  
  groupadd mysql
  useradd -g mysql mysql
  
  
  scripts/mysql_install_db
  
  cp support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d
  chmod u+x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql.server
  
  
  chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
  chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
  chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
  
  
  cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
  
  
  cd /etc/rc.d
  
  ln -s ../init.d/mysql.server rc3.d/S99mysql
  ln -s ../init.d/mysql.server rc5.d/S99mysql
  ln -s ../init.d/mysql.server rc0.d/K99mysql
  ln -s ../init.d/mysql.server rc6.d/K99mysql
  
  
  chmod u+x init.d/mysql.server
  
  
  cd /usr/src/php-4.3.2RC1
  
  Note: In the line below, there is a space after /opt/apache/bin/apxs right before the -- .
  
  ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apxs2=/opt/apache/bin/apxs --disable-cli
  
  make
  make install
  
  
  cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini
  
  Note: Replace the statements in CAPS with the actual information.
  For example: IP_ADDRESS:PORT would be replaced with the actual IP and Port the server will run on
  (172.16.1.7:8080 (if your on a LAN) or if your internet connection is hooked straight in to the machine
  
  
  vi /opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf
  hit forward slash then type: AddType allows you to add then hit enter (/AddType allows you to add (enter))
  hit j 4 times
  hit o (letter)
  
  
  type the 3 statements below and hit enter after each line:
  
  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.cgi
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
  
  hit Esc
  hit colon then 1 (:1 (enter))
  hit forward slash then type ServerAdmin then enter (/ServerAdmin (enter))
  hit n
  hit zero then i then pound (above the 3) then Esc (0 i # Esc (enter))
  hit o (letter)
  type this in: ServerAdmin EMAIL_ADDRESS
  hit Esc
  hit forward slash then type in ServerName then enter (/ServerName (enter))
  hit n
  hit zero then i then type in pound symbol (above the 3) then hit Esc (0 i # Esc (enter))
  hit o (letter)
  
  type in: ServerName IP_ADDRESS:PORT
  hit Esc
  hit colon then 1 (:1 (enter))
  
  hit forward slash then type in Listen then enter (/Listen (enter))
  hit n 3 times
  hit zero then i then type in a pound symbol (above the 3) then hit Esc (0 i # Esc (enter))
  hit o (letter)
  
  type in: Listen IP_ADDRESS:PORT
  hit Esc
  hit colon then w then q then exclamation point (above the 1) then enter (:wq! (enter))
  
  
  vi /etc/passwd
  
  hit forward slash then type in mysql then enter (/mysql (enter))
  hit f then forward slash (f /)
  hit l (letter)
  hit x until your cursor is on top of the :
  hit i
  
  type in: usr/local/mysql/var
  hit Esc
  hit colon then w then q then exclamation point then enter (:wq! (enter))
  
  
  passwd mysql
  Enter a password for the mysql system user account
  Confirm it.
  
  
  Note: Replace the statements in CAPS with the actual information. For example: NEW-PASSWORD would be replaced with a password.
  
  cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
  ./mysqld_safe&
  ./mysqladmin -u root password 'NEW-PASSWORD'
  ./mysqladmin -u root -h HOSTNAME password 'NEW-PASSWORD'
  
  
  /opt/apache/bin/apachectl start
  
  
  
  cd /usr/src
  rm -r httpd-2.0.45
  rm -r mysql-4.1.0-alpha
  rm -r php-4.3.2RC1
  
  
  You have just installed and minimally configured Apache 2, PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1 Alpha, created and linked startup and shutdown scripts to automate things in times of reboot and created a mysql admin remote account.
  
  
  
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