Install of Apache, SSL, PHP, MySQL in linux

The following steps will show you how to install the Apache web server on GNU/Linux. This install also includes installing mod_ssl, MySQL and PHP4.You may encounter problems compiling any one of these tarballs. It is up to you to fix the problems. This install assumes that you have everything you need to do all of the compiles. The x's in each file name stands for what ever the version number is at the time you download it.

Download and extract all the source tarballs.

The following are links to the sites you will need to download the source files. Go to each sites download section and download the latest version of each piece of software. After you have downloaded them all to the same directory we are going to unzip and untar them.

Apache http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi

Openssl http://openssl.org/

ModSSL http://www.modssl.org/

Php.net

MySQL.com (Download the Linux binary version)

tar -xvzf apache_1.3.xx.tar.gz

tar -xvzf openssl-0.9.Xx

tar -xvzf mod_ssl-2.X.xx-1.3.xx

tar -xvzf php-4.X.x.tar.gz

Install MySQL (binary version)

groupadd mysql

useradd -g mysql mysql

cd /usr/local

gunzip < /path/to/mysql-VERSION-OS.tar.gz | tar xvf -

ln -s full-path-to-mysql-VERSION-OS mysql

cd mysql

scripts/mysql_install_db

chown -R root .

chown -R mysql data

chgrp -R mysql .

bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &

bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &

## if you are running MySQL 4.x

Build OpenSSL

cd openssl-0.9.Xx

./config

make

make test

make install

cd ..

Patch Apache with mod_ssl

cd mod_ssl-2.X.xx-1.3.xx

./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.xx

cd ..

Preconfigure Apache for PHP

cd apache_1.3.xx

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache

cd ..

Configure PHP and compile it for Apache

cd php-4.x.x

CFLAGS='-O2 -I../openssl-0.9.Xx'

./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.xx --with-mysql

make

make install

cd ..

You can configure and compile a ton of other things into PHP.Make sure if you compile these other things in that you scan back thru the configure output to make sure all of the things you tried to compile in were found. If you install the libjpeg,freetype,libpng,and zlib on RedHat you just need to put /usr in for the directory. Other paths refer to the areas the library's were installed and compiled. Type: ./configure --help to see all of the things you can configure PHP with. My config line looks like this:

./configure \

--with-gd=/usr \

--with-mysql \

--with-png-dir=/usr \

--with-zlib-dir=/usr \

--with-ttf=/tmp/freetype-2.0.5/ \

--with-freetype-dir=/tmp/freetype-2.0.x \

--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \

--with-mcrypt=/tmp/libmcrypt \

--with-apache=../apache_1.3.xx

make

make install