| So at about 1am this morning, Burst.Net finally got | | | | html/test.php.phpinfo(); |
| my server up and running for me to use. | | | | Then visit yourhost/test.php If your php server is |
| Unfortunately for me, I was already sleeping and I | | | | setup correctly, this should output all of the |
| had work today so I wasn't able to actually play with | | | | information about your php install and the different |
| it until tonight. Like other VPS's and dedicated servers | | | | components that were installed with it. It will give |
| out there, the server is usually bare boned with no | | | | you a list of all your configurations and plugins that |
| software except the operating system. For me I | | | | are enabled. |
| decided to use CentOS 5 64-bit edition to get my | | | | The next step was getting mysql up and running. |
| web server up and running. Burst.NET had Apache 2 | | | | After the yum install, the daemon is not automatically |
| pre-installed on my VPS for me but that was pretty | | | | started so you will need to start it yourself. You can |
| much about it. So I had to scramble around and | | | | start the mysql daemon but running the following |
| search for an easy way to install Mysql and PHP to | | | | command:service mysqld start |
| go with my Linux Apache server. | | | | If everything goes well, the service should start |
| After some searching, I realized that it is really easy | | | | without a hitch and it will give you a list of directions |
| because Linux CentOS 5 comes pre-bundled with | | | | for first time users. One of the most important |
| Yum. Yum is a feature that allows you to download | | | | things to do now is to set a password for the root |
| and install software automatically. It will determine all | | | | user in mysql. Again just like everything else it is just |
| of the dependencies and take care of the rest. I | | | | a simple 1 liner to change the mysql password: |
| determined which packages I needed and sent off | | | | /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password |
| my command:yum install php php-mysql mysql-server | | | | 'mynewpassword' |
| php-gd postgres ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel | | | | Thats it! After only a few simple commands in Linux, |
| This determined all of the dependencies and installed | | | | I was able to get a bare-boned CentOS 5 system up |
| PHP and Mysql on my CentOS Linux server! It was | | | | and running with a full LAMP install. This process will |
| so easy!! I just needed to give Apache a reboot and | | | | take a max of 5 minutes to complete. But for me.. I |
| php was pretty much up and running. To give it a | | | | was busy googling it took me about 30 minutes to |
| test, I just wrote a simple line of code in /var/www | | | | an hour.. so hopefully this will help you. |