Some of my friend keep asking how to install LAMP (Linux, apache, php, mysql). There are many ways to install LAMP. I will now show you an easy way to install LAMP using yum in CentOS.

Below are the steps to install LAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL in Linux) using Yum:-

* Go to CentOS and download a copy of CentOS Linux and install it (i’ll not go thru the how to install CentOS with you here)
* Once your CentOS is installed. Open a terminal (if you are using X-Window), and type yum install httpd and follow on screen instruction to install apache web server
* Once apache web server has been installed, type yum install php
* Once PHP installed successfully, type yum install mysql-server mysql
* Once everything finish, type service httpd start to start your apache web server, screen will show you if web server service successfully started
* type service mysqld start to start your mysql server
* Once both services is running, you can point your browser to http://localhost and you should see a welcome page from CentOS
* If you see that welcome page, you just installed everything successfull.
* To test if php is running, go to /var/www/html and create an index.php file with the content below



and refresh your browser again. If you see a purple PHP information page showing all the php configuration variables, then php is running now.
* Congratulation, you just successfully installed LAMP in your machine.