Installing and Configuring Apache PHP and MySQL on ArchLinux

Installing and Configuring Apache PHP and MySQL on ArchLinux

A server is an indispensable tool for any web developer, even if someone does not want to try a software developer as wordpress or joomla need to install a local server to do so.

Archlinux gives us the opportunity to have one very easily.

The first thing to do is install tenermos binaries MySQL, PHP and Apache and then configure the environment:

# Pacman-S apache php mysql php-apache

We add our user to the http:

# Gpasswd-a http Pahko

where "Pahko" is the name of its user.

Edit the file / etc / hosts and add the following line (probably already have, if not be sure it is well):

# 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Then you can access your server via http://localhost/, if you want to have another name being followed can put like this:

# 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Maebe

So you can also access your server via http://maebo/, you should just make sure the name you are giving to the server is the same as they have in / etc / rc.conf on the line HOSTNAME = "Maebe" .

Apache configuration:

Edit the file / etc / httpd / conf / httpd.conf and comment or rather we put a "#" in the following line:

Unique_id_module LoadModule modules / mod_unique_id.so

being as follows:

# LoadModule unique_id_module modules / mod_unique_id.so

Reboot the server:

# / Etc / rc.d / httpd restart

Now you can see the server running on http://localhost/ or in my case also http://maebo/.

We added the devil in our / etc / rc.conf:

DAEMONS = ( ... @ httpd )

Create the directory "public_html" folder on our staff is, in my case / home / Pahko / running / home / Pahko / public_html / and give permissions:

$ Chmod o + x ~ / public_html

Now we have the server with folders for each user accessing the server through http://localhost/ ~ user as mine would be: http://localhost/ ~ Pahko /

Configuring PHP:

Edit the file / etc / httpd / conf / httpd.conf and add the following line:

LoadModule php5_module modules / libphp5.so

right after:

Dir_module LoadModule modules / mod_dir.so

Add just after:

Various default settings # 
Include conf / extra / httpd-default.conf

this:

Php configuration # 
 Include conf / extra / php5_module.conf

Edit the file / etc / php / php.ini and and de-comment the following line:

; extension = gd.so

look like this:

extension = gd.so

the same with:

; extension = mcrypt.so

to:

 extension = mcrypt.so

also change the mode to debug:

display_errors = Off

being:

display_errors = On

and

change this:

; Date.timezone =

by:

; Date.timezone = America / Mexico_City

reboot the server:

# / Etc / rc.d / httpd restart

php and configured.

Apache Configuration:
Edit the file / etc / php / php.ini and mysql support enabled:

; extension = mysql.so

to:

extension = mysql.so

We start the mysql server:

# / Etc / rc.d / mysqld start

Assign a root password to manage mysql:

mysqladmin -u root password password

We added to our rc.conf daemon:

 DAEMONS = ( ... mysqld ... )

With that we have running our local server!