Install LAMP Stack on CentOS 7

The term LAMP is an acronym of the names of its four open-source components:

  • L - Linux operating system
  • A - Apache the world’s most popular HTTP web server
  • M - MySQL or MariaDB relational database management system
  • P - PHP programming language

In this series, we will show you how to install Apache, generate a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, install and secure MariaDB and install PHP 7.x.

If you are in a hurry and don’t want to read more detailed documentation you can install LAMP Stack on your CentOS 7 server by following our Quickstart section.

Install LEMP Stack on CentOS 7 [Quickstart]

This quickstart will show you the basic steps required to get a LEMP stack installed on an CentOS 7 server.

Prerequisites

The user you are logged in as must have sudo privileges to be able to install packages.

Step 1. Installing Apache

Apache is available in the default CentOS 7 repositories and the installation is pretty straight forward. On CentOS and RHEL the Apache package and the service is called httpd. To install the package run the following command:

sudo yum install httpd

Once the installation is completed, start and enable the Apache service by typing:

sudo systemctl start httpdsudo systemctl enable httpd

Step 2. Installing MariaDB

The next step is to install the MariaDB packages. To do so type:

sudo yum install mariadb-server

Once MariaDB server is installed, start and enable the service with:

sudo systemctl start mariadb.servicesudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
At the time of writing, MariaDB 5.5 is available in the official CentOS 7 repository. If you want to install a newer version please refer to this tutorial . To install MySQL instead of MariaDB, check our tutorial for installation instructions.

Step 3. Installing PHP

CentOS 7 ships with PHP version 5.4 which is EOL-ed for quite some time so we’ll use the Remi repository to install PHP 7.2.

Run the following command to install the Remi repository to your system:

sudo yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Once it is added, install the yum-utils package and enable the remi-php72 repository:

sudo yum install yum-utilssudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72

Now that we have Remi repository enabled, we can install PHP FPM and several most common PHP modules with:

sudo yum install php php-common php-opcache php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql

Once the PHP packages are installed restart the Apache service with:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

More Information

For more detailed instructions about each step, please consult the following tutorials.

Tutorials

1

Apr 27, 2018

How to Install Apache on CentOS 7

2

May 23, 2018

Install MySQL on CentOS 7

3

Aug 17, 2018

How to Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

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Sep 8, 2018

Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on CentOS 7