Install Apache 2.4, PHP 5.4 & APC on Amazon Linux EC2 - Coding Steps

Install Apache 2.4, PHP 5.4 & APC on Amazon Linux EC2 - Coding Steps

The following guide is a step by step tutorial on installing and configuring Apache 2.4, and PHP 5.4 (with APC) on an Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI. The procedure has been tested on Amazon Linux AMI, but should also apply in general to Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS distributions. Also, should you be interested in manually installing PHP APC straight from the PHP PECL library, please check this guide. A guide on installing the complete LAMP stack with MySQL is provided here.

1. Install Linux updates, set time zones, followed by GCC and Make

sudo yum -y update
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indianapolis \
     /etc/localtime
sudo yum install -y gcc make gcc-c++

2. Install Apache 2.4 httpd, PHP 5.4 and PHP extensions

sudo yum install -y httpd24 php54
sudo yum install -y php54-devel php54-mysql php54-pdo php54-mbstring

sudo yum install -y php-pear 

sudo pear install Log
sudo yum install -y pcre-devel

sudo service httpd start

3. Install PHP APC module

sudo yum install -y php54-pecl-apc

4. Auto Start Apache in EC2 Amazon Linux

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
sudo service httpd restart

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Install Apache, PHP, APC, & MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Amazon Linux AMI

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The following guide is a step by step guide on installing and configuring Apache, PHP (with APC) & MySQL (LAMP Stack) on an Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI. The procedure has been tested on Amazon Linux AMI, but should also apply in general to Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS distributions. Also, should you be interested in manually installing PHP APC straight from the PHP PECL library, please check this guide.

1. Install Linux updates, set time zones, followed by GCC and Make

sudo yum -y update
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indianapolis \
      /etc/localtime
sudo yum install -y gcc make

2. Install PHP and PHP extensions

sudo yum install -y php
sudo yum install -y php-devel php-mysql php-pdo
sudo yum install -y php-pear php-mbstring

sudo pear install Log
sudo yum install -y pcre-devel

3. Install Apache httpd

sudo yum -y install httpd
sudo service httpd start

4. Install MySQL

sudo yum -y install mysql-server mysql
sudo service mysqld start

 ps:read the output from MySQL, do the secure install and set password

5. Install PHP APC module

sudo yum -y install httpd-devel
sudo pecl install apc-beta
echo "extension=apc.so" | sudo tee /etc/php.d/apc.ini

Or Simply:

sudo yum install -y php-pecl-apc

6. MySQL Configuration

sudo vi /etc/my.cnf

[mysqld]
...
skip-external-locking
long_query_time=1
slow_query_log
slow_query_log_file=/var/log/log-slow-queries.log
log-bin=mysql-bin
server-id= 1
...

[mysqld_safe]
...
myisam_recover_options
...

[mysqld]
...
key_buffer_size = 128M
max_allowed_packet = 3M
table_open_cache = 64
read_buffer_size = 2M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 8M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 16M
thread_cache_size = 8
query_cache_size= 32M
thread_concurrency = 8
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M
innodb_log_file_size = 32M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 8M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 4M
...

Log Slow Queries:

sudo touch /var/log/log-slow-queries.log
sudo chown mysql.mysql /var/log/log-slow-queries.log

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
sudo service mysqld start

7. PHP Configuration Changes in php.ini

sudo nano /etc/php.ini

expose_php = Off
memory_limit = 128M
date.timezone = America/Indianapolis

Note: Location of error file

/var/log/httpd/error.log

8. Auto Start Apache in EC2 Amazon Linux

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
sudo service httpd start

If this tutorial was helpful to you, then please do not forget to leave a comment, or two. 

How to install PHPMyAdmin on Linux EC2 instance?

Do the following:

1. Navigate to the apache folder

   cd /var/www/html
   

2. Ensure ownership of the folder (assuming signed in with ec2-user)

   sudo chown ec2-user .
   

3. Download phpMyAdmin

   wget http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/4.0.3/phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2
   

4. Unzip

   tar -jxf phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/html
   

5. Rename the folder

   mv phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages phpmyadmin
   

6. Remove the zip file

   rm -rf phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2
   

That's the basics. You can find more info in the link provided above.

You can find the latest version of phpMyAdmin here:http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/

ps: to login phpMyAdmin, use your MySQL root username and password