Another note in my blog to install Apache 2.2.17 with PHP 5.3.5, and now i’m going to use EPEL and WEBTATIC Repository, let’s start!

VPS: CentOS 5.5 64bit with 512MB RAM OpenVZ

Add EPEL and WEBTATIC repository to your vps

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/`uname -i`/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
rpm -import http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy

Install Apache 2.2.3 and additional modules, update your CentOS, and add make it automatically starts

yum -y install httpd perl libperl GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data zip unzip nano
yum -y update
chkconfig --add httpd
chkconfig httpd on

Remove your old PHP and MySQL (if exist)

rpm -qa | grep mysql
rpm -e mysql
rpm -qa | grep php
rpm -e php
yum -y remove php php-mysql mysql mysql-server

Create domain root
Just like the old time, i’m using ‘/home’ base directory, create one user under it to control all domains so you don’t have to worry about ftp permission. Also to make the user more secure, i’m disabling shell function.

useradd www -s /bin/false
passwd www
mkdir -p /home/www/yourdomain/public_html
mkdir -p /home/www/yourdomain/logs

Set ‘www’ user permission recursively

chmod 755 /home/www/domensitu.com /home/www/domensitu.com/public_html /home/www/domensitu.com/logs
chown -R www:www /home/www

Install PHP 5.3.5 and additional modules
You can set your own required modules here.

yum --enablerepo=webtatic -y install php php-cli php-common php-mcrypt php-devel php-mbstring sudo patch libtool libmcrypt-devel libxml2-devel make automake gcc gcc-c++ sudo flex bison wget zlib-devel openssl-devel pcre pcre-devel pcre-devel gd-devel bzip2* libc-client-devel.`uname -i`

Install MySQL 5.5
Try to remove your previous MySQL once again first.

yum -y remove mysql mysql-*
yum --enablerepo=webtatic -y install libmysqlclient15 mysql55 mysql55-server php-mysql
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
chkconfig --add mysqld
chkconfig mysqld on

Securing your MySQL, take a look at my previous post here

Now edit httpd.conf

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add the following lines

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

Change “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” so you can use your own .htaccess configuration

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

Change Apache User and Group to ‘www‘ user

User www
Group www

Uncomment “NameVirtualHost” dan change the asterix (*) with your box IP

NameVirtualHost 123.456.789.101:80

And the last thing, add Virtual Host for your domain configuration

ServerAdmin youremailaddress
DocumentRoot /home/www/yourdomain/public_html
ServerName yourdomain
ErrorLog /home/www/yourdomain/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/www/yourdomain/custom.log common

So Apache 2.2.3 with PHP 5.3.5 and MySQL 5.5 is now ready to rock!!!

Related Post:
– Install PureFTPD
– Install phpMyAdmin

Reference:
– Uncle G
– lamphowto.com
– webtatic.com