How to Install LAMP Server on CentOS 8

Additionally, you can open your web browser and visit your server’s IP a shown.

http://server-IP

Step 3: Install MariaDB on CentOS 8

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL database . It was developed by a former team of MySQL who had concerns that Oracle may turn MySQL to a closed-source project. It ships with innovative and better features than MySQL that make it a better option than MySQL.

To install MariaDB, run the command.

$ dnf install mariadb-server mariadb -y


Next, start and enable MariaDB on startup, run the command.

$ systemctl start mariadb
$ systemctl enable mariadb

You can verify the status of MariaDB by running the command.

$ systemctl status mariadb

Lastly, we need to secure our MariaDB database engine by running.

$ mysql_secure_installation

You will be prompted to enter the root password ( if you already have a root password in place) or set it up. Thereafter, answer Y for every subsequent prompt.

Step 4: Install PHP 7 on CentOS 8

The last component in the LAMP stack we need to install is PHP, and as mentioned earlier, PHP is a scripting web programming language used for developing dynamic web pages.

We are going to install the latest version of PHP ( PHP 7.4 by the time of penning down this guide) using the Remi repository.

First, install the EPEL repository.

$ sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Next, install yum utils and enable remi-repository using the command below.

$ sudo dnf install dnf-utils http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

After the successful installation of yum-utils and Remi-packages, search for the PHP modules which are available for download by running the command.

$ sudo dnf module list php

The output will include the available PHP modules, stream and installation profiles as shown below.

List PHP Module in CentOS 8

The output indicates that the currently installed version of PHP is PHP 7.2. To install the newer release, PHP 7.4, reset the PHP modules.

$ sudo dnf module reset php

Reset PHP Module in CentOS 8

Having reset the PHP modules, enable the PHP 7.4 module by running.

$ sudo dnf module enable php:remi-7.4

Enable PHP Module in CentOS 8

Finally, install PHP, PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) and associated PHP modules using the command.

$ sudo dnf install php php-opcache php-gd php-curl php-mysqlnd

Install PHP Modules in CentOS 8

To verify the version installed to run.

$ php -v 

Check PHP Version in CentOS 8

Perfect! We now have PHP 7.4 installed. Equally important, we need to start and enable PHP-FPM on boot-up.

$ sudo systemctl start php-fpm
$ sudo systemctl enable php-fpm

To check its status execute the command.

$ sudo systemctl status php-fpm

Check PHP-FPM Status

To instruct SELinux to allow Apache to execute the PHP code via PHP-FPM run.

$ setsebool -P httpd_execmem 1

Finally, restart Apache web server for PHP to work with Apache web server.

$ sudo systemctl restart httpd

Step 5: Testing PHP Information

To test PHP with the web server, you’ll have to create an info.php file to the document root directory.

$ v /var/www/html/info.php

Insert the PHP code below and save the file.

<?php
 phpinfo ();
?>

Then head out to your browser, and type the URL below. Remember to replace the server IP address with your server’s actual IP address.

http://server-ip-address/info.php