{"id":558,"date":"2011-07-11T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2011\/07\/11\/apache-php-configuration\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:31:09","slug":"apache-php-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Programming\/Php\/apache-php-configuration.html","title":{"rendered":"How to perform a basic PHP Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within this article we will be configuring a basic php installation using Apache.<br \/><em><strong>Note<\/strong><\/em> : The steps are based upon the CentOS 5 distro.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662d93ac7ac1c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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Apache<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Programming\/Php\/apache-php-configuration.html\/#Create_PHP_Script\" title=\"Create PHP Script\">Create PHP Script<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Programming\/Php\/apache-php-configuration.html\/#Execute_Script\" title=\"Execute Script\">Execute Script<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Install_Apache_PHP\"><\/span><strong>Install Apache \/ PHP<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>First of all you will need to install Apache and php via yum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">yum install httpd php<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Edit_phpini\"><\/span><strong>Edit php.ini<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Within \/etc\/php.ini ensure the following settings are configured by either un-commenting them or by changing the appropriate value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">short_open_tag = On<br \/>magic_quotes_gpc = On<br \/>register_globals = On<br \/>session.save_path = &#8220;\/var\/lib\/php\/session&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Edit_httpconf\"><\/span><strong>Edit http.conf<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Edit the Apache configuration to ensure the following configuration settings are set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">LoadModule php5_module \/usr\/lib\/httpd\/modules\/libphp5.so<br \/>AddType applications\/x-httpd-php .php<br \/>AddType applications\/x-httpd-php-source .phps<br \/>ServerName &#8216;hostname&#8217;<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Restart_Apache\"><\/span><strong>Restart Apache<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">\/etc\/init.d\/httpd restart<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" 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