Setting up CentOS 6 Web server

System settings

• set locale to UTF-8. Add following to /etc/profile:

# set locale to UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Users

• useradd www
• useradd -G www developername

Dev tools

• yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
• yum install man wget vim readline-devel mlocate mc

Apache

• yum install httpd
• chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
• chown www:www /var/www -R
• Set ServerName to 127.0.0.1:80 and NameVirtualHost to *:80 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
• add Include virtuals/* to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
• Add Virtual hosts files in /etc/httpd/virtuals/
• Let others view logs: chmod o+rx /var/log/httpd

Ruby

Install YAML (required):

• Download & extract latest version from http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/
• change directory to yaml's source
• ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
• make && make install

Install RUBY:

• cd /usr/local/src
• download & extract latest version from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
• change directory to ruby's source
• Configure

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--enable-shared \
--disable-install-doc \
--with-opt-dir=/usr/local/lib

• make && make install

Ruby Gems

• cd /usr/local/src
• download & extract latest version from http://rubygems.org/pages/download
• ruby setup.rb

Gems

• gem install jekyll

Misc stuff

• yum install python-pygments - For using pygments in Jekyll

MySQL

• yum install mysql-server mysql
• chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
• mysql -u root
• Run SELECT User, Host FROM mysql.user;
• For every root found, run: SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'%HOST%' = PASSWORD('new-password');

For example:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('new-password');

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'myserver' = PASSWORD('new-password');

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'127.0.0.1' = PASSWORD('new-password');

• For every empty user, run: DROP USER ''@'%HOST%';

For example:

DROP USER ''@'localhost';

DROP USER ''@'myserver';

PHP

• as described here
• ..
• make clean
• Configure (enable apache2, mysql, JPEG-GD library and OpenSSL)

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--with-mysql \
--with-mysqli \
--with-pdo-mysql \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-openssl

• make && make install
• ..
• add following to /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:

# PHP Configuration for Apache
#
# Load the apache module
#
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
#
# Cause the PHP interpreter handle files with a .php extension.
#
<Files *.php>
  SetOutputFilter PHP 
  SetInputFilter PHP 
  LimitRequestBody 9524288
</Files>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php

PhpMyAdmin

• Download latest version from http://www.phpmyadmin.net
• unpack and change directory
• cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
• In config.inc.php replace localhost to 127.0.0.1
• Uncomment storage settings and run /examples/create_tables.sql to enable Visual Designer
• login via web interface

NodeJS

• download source from nodejs.org to /usr/local/src/
• untar
• cd
• ./configure
• make && make install

Redis

• Download latest source from redis.io to /usr/local/src/
• untar
• cd
• make

Misc

• Disable SELinux: set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config (reboot to apply changes or run /usr/sbin/setenforce 0)
• cp /usr/local/src/php/php.ini-dev /usr/local/lib/php.ini