This tutorial will help you for installing Apache/HTTPD 2.4 and PHP 7 on Amazon Linux system.
MySQL installation is not part of this tutorial. So if you also need MySQL server on your Amazon Linux, follow this tutorial.
Step 1 – Initial Setup
Log in to your Amazon Linux system via SSH and become root user. Then update yum to the latest.
sudo su - yum -y update
Its optional part to set the proper timezone as per your requirements. The below commands will change system Timezone to ‘America/New_York’.
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bak ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
Step 2 – Install Apache 2.4
Now install the Apache/httpd web server with other recommended extensions form the default yum repositories.
yum install -y httpd24 httpd24-tools mod24_ssl
The httpd24 package will install Apache 2.4 and mod24_ssl extension will provide cryptographic support to your Apache web server.
After installation set Apache to auto-start and also start once.
chkconfig httpd on service httpd start
Step 3 – Install PHP 7.3
After that install PHP 7.3 with some frequently used extensions.
yum install -y php73 php73-devel php73-mysql php73-pdo php73-mbstring yum install -y php73-gd php73-xml php73-xmlrpc php73-mcrypt php-pear
If you need to install other version like PHP 7.2 change all packages names accordingly like php72 or php71 etc.
Step 4 – Create VirtualHost
After installing packages create your first virtual host. To create virtual host for your domain example.com, edit the Apache configuration file and create virtual host like below:
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/example.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/example.com-access_log combined </VirtualHost> |
After changing restart Apache service
service httpd start
Test PHP Version with Apache
Finally, create a PHP script with phpinfo() function and upload to document root directory.
vim /var/www/html/info.php
1 2 3 | <?php phpinfo(); ?> |
Now, access php script in web browser.
http://www.example.com/info.php
Makes sense to me. At this point, everyone should be using Amazon Linux 2 anyways. That’s what I was looking for when I found this post (how to install with AL2).
This was meant as a reply to GARETH’s comment.
either install using the remirepo for php or use amazon’s own repo
sudo amazon-linux-extras install php7.3
Great work. But it is missing how to uninstall for babies.
Also, how to resolve this
Error: php73-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
Error: php73-cli conflicts with php-cli-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
I think something must have changed, from an AMI2 none of those packages are not available through yum