How to install LAMP stack on VPS ie CentOS 6.x (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

This tutorial is a step by step on how to How to install LAMP stack on VPS ie CentOS 6.0 (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

We are using a CentOS 6.5 x64  a Jerry package ($4/month)  for the purpose of this tutorial

yum install httpd

Result should be something like the screenshot below

Install httpd webserver


service httpd start
yum install mysql-server
service mysqld start

To set MySQL password

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP and php-mysql
yum install php php-mysql

If you have a requirement to install some php modules you can use this command to search then use yum in install the module
yum search php-

then

yum install modulename

install php module centos
To make sure those services start at boot time run


chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on



Thats all:)

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