Sunday, July 8, 2007

Very basic FAMP (Freebsd, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

As you may already know, I installed FreeBSD 6.2 last night. One of the primary uses of my machine is a web server complete with PHP and MySQL.

Installation is pretty straight-forward.

Apache 2.2


cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
# If you don't know where it is just do a make search name=apache22
make install clean
mkdir -p /var/www/htdocs
chgrp -R www /var/www/htdocs
chown -R www /var/www/htdocs
# Let anybody in the group add new documents
chmod g+w -R /var/www/htdocs
# Add myself to the www group
pw user mod my_user -G www
# Let's configure the damn thing
vi /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf
# Changed DocumentRoot to /var/www/htdocs
# Changed ServerName to http://my_private_adress:80
# Changed ServerAdmin to my email address
# Changed AllowOverride All (as
# anybody can modify their directories with .htaccess)
# Now let's start it
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start
# And add it to /etc/rc.conf to start automatically on every
# system boot.

echo 'apache22_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf



MySQL 5.1


cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server
make install clean
rehash
# Let us start the database installer
mysql_install_db --user=mysql
chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql/
chgrp -R mysql /var/db/mysql/
/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe -user=mysql &
# Start it every time the system starts
echo ‘mysql_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/ rc.conf
# Change the root password
mysqladmin -u root password newpassword
# Copy the config file
cp /usr/local/share/mysql/my-small.cnf /var/db/mysql/my.cnf
# Add another user (it's generally not a good idea to work with
# root)

mysql -u root -pnewpassword
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'another_password'
mysql> quit



PHP 5.2


cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
make install clean
# You have to choose the option for Apache 2.2
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extentions
make config
# Choose Mysql, GD, Zlib, PDF, Mbstring and any other extension you would like
make install clean
# Apache configuration
# After all the LoadModule lines add:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
# Uncomment the Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-userdir.conf line
# You now have a per-user web account in /home/user/public_html
# Restart apache
apachectl restart



All is done. Have fun. By the way, you can copy stuff from the outside with scp (you did remember to let ssh connection didn't you?)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

First of all - THANKS !
That's exactly what needed, simple step-by-step guide without long explanation for noobs.

I just want to add a little bit:
(Installed yesterday Apache+MySQL+PHP on FreeBSD 7.0-release.)

1. Apache:
After ”apachectl start”
got error ”(2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the ‘httpready’ Accept Filter
”.

Problem resolved as:
Add string [accf_http_load=”YES”] to ”/boot/loader.conf”
and start manually 'kldload accf_http'

P.S.
If someone want to host multiple sites on server, it's good idea to uncomment string in httpd.conf:
# Virtual hosts
Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

2. MySQL 5.1
2.1
string:
mysqladmin -u root password newpassword

should be:
mysqladmin -u root password ”newpassword”
where ”newpassword” - new MySQL root password.

2.2
string:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'another_password'

should be:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'another_password';

(;) - on the end.

3. PHP
string:
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extentions

should be:
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions

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Regards,

Alex