Install and configure LAMP on suse

LAMP stands for LINUX, APACHE, MYSQL and PHP

Install and Configuration of LAMP is as shown below

* Install and configure apache2

1. Install the package using yast

# yast2 –install apache2

This will install apache webserver

2. Check the status of apache webserver

# rcapache2 status

It will show you unused. It will show you its installed but not running

3. Create a sample page so we can check apache is working

# cd /srv/www/htdocs

# vi index.html

welcome to suse

Save and quit

4 . Start the apache server

# rcapache2 start

5 . Go on to the browser and type http://localhost , you will see the text you entered

* Install PHP5

1 . Run the following command

# yast2 –install php5 php5-mysql apache2-mod_php5

This will install PHP5 , PHP-Mysql module and Apache2 PHP5 module

We need to restart the apache server for changes to take effect

# rcapache2 restart

* Install and configure MySQL

1 . Install mysql packages using yast

# yast2 – install mysql

2. Check the status of mysql

# rcmysql status

It will show you the status is unused

3 . Start the mysql server

# rcmysql start

4. By default there is no root password set for mysql . We need to set it

# mysqladmin -u root -p password rootpassword

This will set password as rootpassword

5 . Now try to login into the mysql server

# mysql -u root -p

Enter password: “Type the password we just created”

mysql >

6 . To administer mysql database we have one popular tool named as phpmyadmin . Install it

# yast2 –install phpMyAdmin

This will install it and setup website at /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyadmin directory. Now setup phpmyadmin

# cd /srv/www/htdocs/phpmyAdmin

# cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

Now login to phpmyadmin from http://localhost/phpmyadmin with sql root user and password

Now you can administor Mysql database from phmyadmin tool.