This is a simple way to setup a LAMP environment after you have just installed a Linux (i.e. Ubuntu)
or if you’d like to replicate the setup of another machine (i.e. duplicate your desktop’s environment to your laptop)
The key is to keep all your customizations in separate files and directories.
We start by creating a new folder where all our custom settings will live.
1. prerequisites
Create a directory named "lamp" with the following structure:
├── apache
│ └── elmo.conf
├── install.sh
├── mysql
│ └── elmo.cnf
├── php
│ └── elmo.ini
└── virtualhosts
├── 000-localhost.conf
└── phpmyadmin.conf
2. configure Apache 2
The default apache2.conf (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf) is setup to include every settings file it can find inside the "conf.d" directory (/etc/apache2/conf.d)
so make sure this line is included:
Include conf.d/
We will sym link our Apache customizations into this directory:
sudo ln -s /lamp/apache/elmo.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/
You may now add your own Apache settings into the elmo.conf file.
The files under "conf.d" are loaded in order of their file names i.e. aaa.conf loads before bbb.conf
All the files inside "conf.d" are loaded at the end of the apache2.conf so your custom settings may override the defaults.
After the settings are in place, you may want to automatically configure some virtual hosts.
Optionally, you could delete the default/old virtual hosts:
rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*
Now new hosts are ready to be enabled:
ln -s /lamp/virtualhosts/000-localhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
3. configure Mysql 5
Mysql does the same configuration loading as Apache.
The last my.cnf directive is "!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/" which loads every settings file from the "conf.d" directory.
Let’s do the symbolic linking:
sudo ln -s /lamp/mysql/elmo.cnf /etc/mysql/conf.d/
Place all your Mysql customizations inside the elmo.cnf file.
4. configure Php / Zend Server CE 5.2
My Php environment is provided by Zend Server Community Edition.
The php.ini file located under /usr/local/zend/etc/ uses this directive to include the settings file from inside "conf.d":
[Zend]
zend.ini_scandir=conf.d
Obviously, we will create a symbolic link to our custom Php settings:
sudo ln -s /lamp/mysql/elmo.ini /usr/local/zend/etc/conf.d/
5. other
If you wish to automate things further add all the commands inside a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
# USAGE: sudo ./install.sh
ROOT="/lamp"
# mysql
ln -s $ROOT/mysql/elmo.cnf /etc/mysql/conf.d/
# apache
ln -s $ROOT/apache/elmo.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/
# remove old virtual hosts
rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*
# add my virtual hosts
ln -s $ROOT/virtualhosts/000-localhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
ln -s $ROOT/virtualhosts/phpmyadmin.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
# php configuration
ln -s $ROOT/php/elmo.ini /usr/local/zend/etc/conf.d/