First log in to the server as a user that has enough privileges to install via yum ( You might have to pop sudo in front of the commands if you are not logged in as root )

• Install the applications that drive LAMP.

yum install httpd mysql-server mysql-client php php-mysql

• Accept the download.
• Start the services.

service mysqld start

service httpd start

• Now we set the services to start at boot.

chkconfig httpd on

chkconfig mysqld on

• Now we set a mysql root password

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘yourpasswordofchoice’

And that’s everything installed and running!

You can test the apache install by visiting the IP of the server in your browser http://ipofserver/

If you want to check the PHP install you can call a simple phpinfo page that will give you lots of information about PHP and its current cofiguration.

• Edit a new file using your favourite text editor (In this example I will use vi).

vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

• Place the following code in the file.