Install Apache/PHP 5.5.7, MariaDB 5.5.34 on CentOS 6.5

Radenko Bogdanovic

10 years ago

This howto guide explains you’ll how to install Apache Server with latest MariaDB 5.5.34 and PHP 5.5.7 versions on CentOS 6.5 systems using Remi repository via Yum tool.

We are going to install all these following PHP modules in this installation.

APC (php-pecl-apc) – APC caches and optimizes PHP intermediate code
CLI (php-cli) – Command-line interface for PHP
PEAR (php-pear) – PHP Extension and Application Repository framework
PDO (php-pdo) – A database access abstraction module for PHP applications
MySQL (php-mysqlnd) – A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases
PostgreSQL (php-pgsql) – A PostgreSQL database module for PHP
MongoDB (php-pecl-mongo) – PHP MongoDB database driver
SQLite (php-sqlite) – Extension for the SQLite V2 Embeddable SQL Database Engine
Memcache (php-pecl-memcache) – Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
Memcached (php-pecl-memcached) – Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
GD (php-gd) – A module for PHP applications for using the gd graphics library
XML (php-xml) – A module for PHP applications which use XML
MBString (php-mbstring) – A module for PHP applications which need multi-byte string handling
MCrypt (php-mcrypt) – Standard PHP module provides mcrypt library support

Install REMI repository

First enable remi repository

## Install Remi on CentOS 6.5 - 32 Bit ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm 

## Install Remi on CentOS 6.5 - 64 Bit ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Installing MariaDB 5.5.34

We highly recommended to use custom MariaDB YUM repository to install. Create a repo file under/etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo, Copy and paste following line under MariaDB repo:

Add repository on Centos 6 32-bit

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo

and paste following line:

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-x86
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

Add repository on Centos 6 64-bit

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

Once you’ve placed MariaDB.repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d/. Let’s install with following YUM command:

# yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client -y

After complite installation process, start MariaDB width following command:

# service mysql start

Set MariaDB to start on boot:

# chkconfig mysql on

Install Apache HTTP Server (httpd) and PHP 5.5.7

# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php55 install httpd php php-common

Install PHP 5.5.7 modules

Select what you need: APC, CLI, PEAR, PDO, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Memcache, Memcached, GD, MBString, MCrypt, XML

# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php55 install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

Start Apache server (httpd) and autostart Apache server (httpd) on boot

# service httpd start
# chkconfig httpd on

Create test PHP page to check that Apache, PHP and PHP modules are working

# vi /var/www/html/info.php

and paste following code:

Check created page with browser

Access following address, with your browser. http://ip.add.re.ss/info.php

That’s it!. If you are having any trouble installing, let me know via our comment section.