Setting up CentOS 6 Web server

Users

• useradd www
• useradd -G www developername

Dev tools

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

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 Virtual hosts files in /etc/httpd/conf.d/

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 --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

PHP

• as described here

• Disable SELinux: set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config (reboot to apply changes or run /usr/sbin/setenforce 0)