Most of cloud users prefer Rackspace Cloud for its better service and cost effectiveness…
All commands are performed as root to install Apache, MySQL, PHP in CentOS 5.5 Server on Rackspace Cloud.
Install Apache
# sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl
Configure ServerName
# sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start
Remove Error
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using xx.xx.xxx.xx for ServerName
Modify
# sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add server name after #ServerName www.example.com:80
ServerName svnlabs
# sudo /etc/init.d/httpd reload
By default port 80 is blocked on server, enable in iptables…
# iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Chkconfig to start automatically if the Cloud Server is rebooted.
# sudo /sbin/chkconfig httpd on
Install MySQL
# yum install mysql-server
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Install PHP
Edit Repo file
# sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
add at last
[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing
now run
# yum install php php-common php-gd php-mcrypt php-pear php-pecl-memcache php-mhash php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring
Install PhpMyAdmin
# cd /var/www/html
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/3.3.6/phpMyAdmin-3.3.6-english.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phpmyadmin.net%2Fhome_page%2Fdownloads.php&ts=1283745912&use_mirror=voxel
# tar zxvf phpMyAdmin-3.3.6-english.tar.gz
# mv phpMyAdmin-3.3.6-english phpmyadmin
# cd phpmyadmin
# cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
Edit config.inc.php for random string $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ‘RandomStringHere’;
Restart server
# service httpd restart
Comparison between Amazon Cloud & Rackspace Cloud … Coming Soon 😉