/Guides/FreeBSD/Webserver/

General Information

This guide will teach you how to set up a basic web server with Apache, PHP support, and MySQL for the database.  

There are a couple of ways to do this, but this guide will use the easier method with the ports system.

Requirements

1. In order for public access to your website, you must have a valid domain name.
   
2. A text editor (for this guide we will use Nano)

Installation

Section A -- Apache

# #	cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make install clean

Apache now gets started on system boot from rc.conf so let's add the respective entry:

#	echo 'apache_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Note:  For Apache2 users:  Use the following instead.

# # #

cd /usr/ports/www/apache2 make install distclean echo 'apache2_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Section B -- PHP

# #	cd /usr/ports/lang/php4 make config

You will be prompted to add module support.  At this time select the Apache support.

# # #

make install distclean cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions make install distclean

Select which options you would like compiled into PHP and select OK.

Section C -- MySQL

# # #

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server make install clean echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Configuration

Now we need to make sure Apache is configured for your website and that the PHP module is configured in the Apache config file.

# #	cd /usr/local/etc/apache nano httpd.conf

Make sure you see the following lines uncommented:

LoadModule php4_module     libexec/apache/libphp4.so AddModule mod_php4.c <IfModule mod_dir.c>      DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm </IfModule>

Add the following lines for virtual hosts:

ServerType standalone ServerName domain.tld NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.2 <VirtualHost 192.168.0.2>      ServerName domain.tld      ServerAlias www.domain.tld      ServerAdmin admin@domain.tld      DocumentRoot /path/to/website/files </VirtualHost>

Start the servers:

# #	/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start

Enjoy your webserver!

Author: Jon LaBass
jon at bsdguides dot org

Just a side note, if you install mod_php4 with MySQL 4.1.x, you need to simlink in /usr/local/lib/mysql

ln -s libmysqlclient.so.14 libmysqlclient.so.12

because of the dependency of mod_php4 on MySQL 4.0

This simlink should be reversed! i.e. ln -s libmysqlclient.so.12 libmysqlclient.so.14 'cos libmysqlclient.so.12 exists, so cannot simlink it!

For those of you who are using PHP5 instead of PHP4, don't forget to add the following to your httpd.conf file:

     AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
     AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
     AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
     AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
     AddType application/x-httpd-php .php5
     AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

this is how you start mysql server:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start