Please wait while we retrieve data from server .............

{codecitation}yum install mysql mysql-server{/codecitation}

Start the mysql server as follows.

{codecitation}/etc/init.d/mysqld start{/codecitation}

For better security, you can create a password for mysql access as follows.

{codecitation}mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword{/codecitation}

Now you can check mysql is running or not using the following command.

{codecitation}ps aux | grep mysql
netstat -plan | grep mysql{/codecitation}

Also make sure that you allow port 3306 in your iptables to make sure that firewall is not blocking mysql port.

{codecitation}iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -p tcp --dport mysql -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT 2 -i lo -p udp --dport mysql -j ACCEPT{/codecitation}

Now we can install lighthttpd in the server. For that we can install rpmforge repos in the server. To
install rpmforge follow steps in the link given below.

{codecitation} http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

yum install lighttpd{/codecitation}

Now start lighthttpd service as follows.

{codecitation}/etc/init.d/lighttpd start{/codecitation}

Now check whether lighthttpd is installed properly by taking the link in the browser as follows.

{codecitation}http://<ip address>{/codecitation}

Lighttpd's default document root is /srv/www/lighttpd and configuration file is /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.

Now we can install PHP in the server.

{codecitation}yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli php-common {/codecitation}

If the rpms are not available you can get it from http://rpm.pbone.net/

Now we need to configure lighthttp and php.

First we open /etc/php.ini and add the line cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 right at the end of the file:

{codecitation}vi /etc/php.ini

[...]
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1{/codecitation}

Then we open /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and uncomment "mod_fastcgi", in the server.modules stanza:

{codecitation}vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

[...]
server.modules              = (
#                               "mod_rewrite",
#                               "mod_redirect",
#                               "mod_alias",
"mod_access",
#                               "mod_cml",
#                               "mod_trigger_b4_dl",
#                               "mod_auth",
#                               "mod_status",
#                               "mod_setenv",
"mod_fastcgi",
#                               "mod_proxy",
#                               "mod_simple_vhost",
#                               "mod_evhost",
#                               "mod_userdir",
#                               "mod_cgi",
#                               "mod_compress",
#                               "mod_ssi",
#                               "mod_usertrack",
#                               "mod_expire",
#                               "mod_secdownload",
#                               "mod_rrdtool",
"mod_accesslog" )
[...]{/codecitation}

and then, further down the file, there's a fastcgi.server stanza which we uncomment as well:

{codecitation}[...]
#### fastcgi module
## read fastcgi.txt for more info
## for PHP don't forget to set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 in the php.ini
fastcgi.server             = ( ".php" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi"
)
)
)
[...]{/codecitation}

Then we restart Lighttpd:

The document root of the default web site is/srv/www/lighttpd/ . We will now create a small PHP file (info.php) in that directory and call it in a browser. The file will display lots of useful details about our PHP installation, such as the installed PHP version.

{codecitation}vi /srv/www/lighttpd/info.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>{/codecitation}

Now we call that file in a browser (e.g. http://<ip>/info.php)

Now we can add mysql support.

{codecitation}yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc{/codecitation}

Now restart Lighttpd:

{codecitation}/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart{/codecitation}

If you need a free control panel, you can go for webmin. Here is how you can install webmin in the server.

{codecitation} wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.441.tar.gz

tar -xvzf  webmin-1.441.tar.gz

cd  webmin-1.441

./setup.sh
{/codecitation}