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Apache, PHP, MySQL

Installation and configuration

Web Programming with PHP,TITAS PROJECTIICT,BUET

Operating Systems

Author:Sayeef Salahuddin

Operating Systems

Windows Linux

Installation Configuration Installation Configuration

Installation

The Apache web-server is by default installed in most of the modern day linux systems.

Apache web server is available in rpm format from which automatic installation will be performed

Apache web-server is also available in both source and binary distribution format.

Apache Web Server(Linux)

Installation

For the source distribution we follow the following steps

edit the Configuration file (AddModule ) configure (EXTRA_CFLAGS, LIBS, LDFLAGS, INCLUDES )

make copying and configuration (to be discussed)

For the binary distribution only the 4th step of the previous point is necessary.

Apache Web Server(Linux)

Installation

The Apache is available in .msi format The installation is quite straight forward. Apache is best suited for Windows NT and

Windows2000-when used as a service Apache is best suited when used from the

console window for Windows95/98

Apache Web Server(Windows)

Installation

In most of the today’s linux systems PHP is by default installed.

Lots of RPM packages are available which will automatically install PHP.

Binary and Source distributions are also available.

PHP(Linux)

Installation

For a source distribution a typical configure option for installing with MySQl and apache will look like

./configure --with-mysql –with-apxs=/www/bin/apxs make

make install

PHP(Linux)

Installation

Key things to remember edit the php.ini file for options. The php.ini file is normaly

located in /usr/local/lib/php.ini. Add the following lines to the httpd.conf or srm.conf if not

already present AddType application/x-httpd-php .php LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

PHP(Linux)

Installation

There are two ways to install PHP for windows As a CGI As a module

To install as a CGI the following things should be present in the httpd.conf

ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"

It is assumed here that the package is for this particular case is in the c:\php directory.

PHP(Windows)

Installation

To install as a module the following things should be taken care of php4ts.dll should be copied to windows\system directory

replacing any older file The following should be added to the httpd.conf file

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

It is assumed here that the package is for this particular case is in the c:\php directory.

PHP(Windows)

Installation

The recommended way to install MySQL on Linux is by using an RPM file

The RPM files you may want to use are: MySQL-VERSION.i386.rpm The MySQL server. MySQL-client-VERSION.i386.rpm The standard MySQL client

programs. MySQL-bench-VERSION.i386.rpm Tests and benchmarks. MySQL-devel-VERSION.i386.rpm Libraries and include files. MySQL-VERSION.src.rpm This contains the source code for all of

the above packages.

MySQL(Linux)

Installation

The recommended way to install MySQL on Windows is to use the precompiled binary distributions.

The installation procedure is quite straight forward. The MySQL is by default set up to run from c:\mysql If connecting to MySQL from some other programs

is necessary MyODBC driver will be required.

MySQL(Windows)

Configuring Apache

The Apache web server has 3 configuration files

httpd.conf srm.conf access.conf

Linux

Configuring Apache

httpd.confThis is used to set the general settings such as the port number

as well as to load modules. srm.conf

This file sets the root documents, rules and other general settings

access.confThis file deals with the access control of the server.

Linux

Configuring Apache

The parameters1.ServerType standalone Inetd

2. Port normally 80 Any free port can be used

Linux

Configuring Apache

The parameters

3.User & Group user nobody group nobody

Normally the httpd process is fired by the root but this does not listen for connections.

This launches one or more child processes as the user and the group indicated with these configuration directives.

Linux

Configuring Apache

The parameters

4.ServerRootbase directory for the configuration files--- normally

/etc/httpd

5. ServerNamethe name of the Web Server

for example www.buet.ac.bd

Linux

Configuring Apache

The parameters

6.ServerAdmin

this indicates the e-mail address of the administrator of the site.

Linux

Configuring ApacheLinux



7.DocumentRoot

this identifies the directory where the root directory is located.

8.DirectoryIndex

the index file name which will be accessed by the user.The normal entries for this is

index.html,index.htm, index.shtml,index.php


9.AccessFileName

This specifies the file name for the access control of the server. The typical entry is

AccessFileName .htaccess


10.ScriptAlias

This specifies the directory name where the scripts will be saved. A typical entry is like

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/


11. Alias

This specifies the directory name which can be accessed by the name specified. Atypical entry will be

Alias /icons/ etc/httpd/icons/


12. AddHandler and Addtype The AddHandler directive allows a file with a specific extension

to be mapped to a particular action in the server or an external action.

AddType creates a new MIME type for a specific extension.

A typical entry is

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml


A typical home directory configuration<Directory /home/myweb>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>


Directives in brief Allowoveride Order allow Options


Access Control

A typical .htaccess file has the follwing entries

AuthName Students Only

AuthUserFile /home/users

AuthGroupFile /home/groups

require group students


AuthName this will prompt the specified value. in this case Students Only

AuthUserFile path of the user file

AuthGroupFile path of the group file

Require this is used to restrict access. In this case only students group is allowed. the syntax is require user user1,user2… or require group grou1,group2…


Virtual Hosting There are two types of virtual hosting The name based virtual hosting The IP based vitual hosting A typical name-based virtual hosting could be performed by

adding the following lines to httpd.confListen 9000

<VirtualHost _default_:9000>

##the host parameters and rules and directives

</virtualhost>

Refences

[1] The Apache User’s Manual (www.apache.org)

[2] The MySQL User’s Maunual (ww.mysql.org)

[3] The PHP user’s Manual (www.php.net)

[4] Mastering Linux By Arman Danesh ,Cybex

[5] Linux Unleashed By David Pitts & Bill Boll,Tech Media

Authored By

-Sayeef Salahuddin

Student No: 9606039

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