Download CentOS 7 ISO file mount it and create a VM in Virtualbox and boot
Select the following:
- Simple webserver
- PHP
yum install php-common
Open Firewall for Apache and register as service
firewall-cmd –permanent –add-service=http
firewall-cmd –reload
sudo systemctl enable httpd
Install MariaDB and register as service
Check if installed
rpm -qa | grep mariadb
yum install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
mysql
> grant all on *.* to ‘sgalea’@’%’ identified by ‘bitnami’ with grant option;
quit
sudo vi /etc/my.cnf
[mysqld]
skip-grant-tables
Enable External connections to the database
firewall-cmd –permanent –add-service=mysql
firewall-cmd –reload
yum -y install php-mysql
Install SFTP and enable as service
yum -y update
yum -y install vsftpd
Conf location: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
firewall-cmd –permanent –add-port=21/tcp
firewall-cmd –reload
Creating Virtual Hosts Settings
mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-available
mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-enabled
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Put the following at the end of file
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
Esc :wq
Create a file per virtual host in /etc/httpd/sites-available
sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev1.local.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev1.local
ServerAlias dev1.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/dev1.local/laravel/public
ErrorLog /var/www/dev1.local/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/dev1.local/logs/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev2.local.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev2.local
ServerAlias dev2.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/dev2.local/laravel/public
ErrorLog /var/www/dev2.local/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/dev2.local/logs/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev3.local.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev3.local
ServerAlias dev3.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/dev3.local/laravel/public
ErrorLog /var/www/dev3.local/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/dev3.local/logs/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-7
Enabling the hosts
sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev1.local.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/dev1.local.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev2.local.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/dev2.local.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/dev3.local.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/dev3.local.conf
Create folders
mkdir /var/www/dev1.local
mkdir /var/www/dev2.local
mkdir /var/www/dev3.local
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www
Install Composer Globally
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Install Laravel Dependencies
ext-mbstring
sudo yum install php-mbstring
ext-mcrypt
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
yum install php-mcrypt*
Install Laravel
navigate to the folder where one wishes to install it in my case
cd /var/www/dev1.local
composer create-project laravel/laravel –prefer-dist
cd /var/www/dev2.local
composer create-project laravel/laravel –prefer-dist
cd /var/www/dev3.local
composer create-project laravel/laravel –prefer-dist
Storage Folder needs write permissions in SELinux
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev1.local/laravel/storage/"
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev2.local/laravel/storage/"
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev3.local/laravel/storage/"
chmod -R 777 /var/www/dev1.local/laravel/storage/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/dev2.local/laravel/storage/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/dev3.local/laravel/storage/
- Not sure if 777 is a good idea here
We need a location for logs
mkdir /var/www/dev1.local/logs
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev1.local/logs/"
mkdir /var/www/dev2.local/logs
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev2.local/logs/"
mkdir /var/www/dev3.local/logs
su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/www/dev3.local/logs/"
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service
Check virtualhosts
httpd -S
Add virtual hosts in host file on your host OS
On windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
edit host file as Administrator
192.168.101.12 dev1.local
192.168.101.12 dev2.local
192.168.101.12 dev3.local
Where 192.168.101.12 is the IP of your Virtual Machine running CentOS 7
Remove index.php from the url
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Change to:
AllowOverride All
Things required while debugging issues:
While debugging try without SELinux
Disable:
setenforce 0
Enable:
setenforce 1
These are not permanent they will be reset to default status after reboot.
Search string in file
grep -R ‘string’ dir/
Find IP
ip addr
Changing IP of the VM
sudo dhclient -r
sudo dhclient
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17954625/services-json-failed-to-open-stream-permission-denied-in-laravel-4
Errorlogs location causes htttpd not reload
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/175558/apache-wont-restart-after-adding-virtualhost-conf-file-why-not
Blankscreen issue
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20678360/laravel-blank-white-screen
ServerSetup
http://www.hexblot.com/blog/centos-7-server-installation
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