How to Install LAMP Stack in Cent os 7 on Google Cloud Platform

What is LAMP Stack?

LAMP stands for Linux,Apache,MySQL and PHP. Linux is an operating system where we are going to install Apache. In Apache we can run HTML,CSS,PHP and MySQL. An Apache is a web server it is used to run a web application on web browser.MySQL is a database server which is used to store a data in a table and PHP stands for hypertext Pre-processor it is a programming language to create a web application that run on a back-end.

How to install LAMP Stack in Google Cloud Platform?

In this tutorial we are going to install LAMP stack on CentOS 7 in google cloud platform by creating a VPS.

Requirements:

      1. Google cloud platform account.
      2.Basic Linux knowledge.
      3. VPS with sudo privileges.

1. Create a VM instance in google cloud platform with this requirements.

 

      1.CentOS 7
      2.1GB RAM with 1CPU
      3.10GB storage

if you don't know how to create VM instance click here 

2. Add the EPEL repo here to install latest phpMyAdmin

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
yum -y install epel-release

install nano to edit files in terminal

yum -y install nano

3. Install MySQL and MariaDB

yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb

Start MySQL service and create a system startup link that run MySQL when system boots

systemctl start mariadb.service
systemctl enable mariadb.service

Now securely install MYSQL and set password for the user root.

mysql_secure_installation

follow the steps to install MySQL.

4. Install Apache Server.

copy and past the command to install Apache 2.4 in CentOS7.

yum -y install httpd

Now start the apache adn setup startup link to run apache when system boots

systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl enable httpd.service

5. Setup Firewall rule to access web-server using external IP of server

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --reload

Now type your external IP in web Browser like http://YourExternalIP/ you can see a test apache page in web browser.

6. Installing PHP

To install newer version on PHP use the below command

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

install yum-utils as we need the yum-config-manager utility.

yum -y install yum-utils

update the system packages by using

yum update

Copy and paste the below command to install PHP 7.2

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72
yum -y install php php-opcache

Now restart the Apache Server

systemctl restart httpd.service

7. Installing Common PHP Modules

yum -y install php-mysqlnd php-pdo
yum -y install php-gd php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-soap curl curl-devel

Now restart Apache web server

systemctl restart httpd.service

8. Installing PhpMyAdmin.

Usign the phpmyadmin you can access the database through web interface

yum -y install phpMyAdmin

Now open the phpmyadmin configuration file using nano

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

Now comment the lines which is highlighted in Red color

<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
#Apache 2.4
#<RequireAny> 
#Require ip 127.0.0.1 
#Require ip ::1 
#</RequireAny> 
Require all granted 
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.2
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
</IfModule>
</Directory>

Next, we change the authentication in phpMyAdmin from cookie to http

nano /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

[...]
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
[...]

Restart Apache server

systemctl restart httpd.service

To access PhpMyAdmin type https://YourExternalIP/phpmyadmin

Now we sucessfully installed LAMP Stack in centos7 on google cloud platform