Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, and Tomcat on Windows

LAMP is a widely used web server infrastructure. For some reasons, I need to install latest Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows, and integrate Tomcat with Apache. (There are reasons for integrating and not integrating them together; interested readers can read this.)

Here are some quick tips of how I made it:

Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin

Download
· Apache 2.2.4: http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.4-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi
· MySQL 5.0.37: http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.37-win32.zip/from/http:/mysql.he.net/
· PHP 5.2.1: http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.1-win32-installer.msi/from/a/mirror
· PHPMyAdmin 2.10.0.2: http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.10.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz

Install Apache
1. Refer to instructions on http://www.webmasterstop.com/48-1.html
2. Change the installation directory to C:\Apache
3. Test the installation by typing http://localhost/ in the URL field of your web browser, you should see “It works!” on the page.

Install MySQL
1. Refer to instructions on http://www.webmasterstop.com/48-2.html
2. Change the installation directory to C:\MySQL

Install PHP
1. Refer to instructions on http://www.webmasterstop.com/48-3.html
2. Change the installation directory to C:\PHP
3. Choose “Apache 2.2.x Module” on Web Server Setup page
4. Fill in Apache Configuration Directory with “C:\Apache\conf\”
5. Select APC, GD2, Multi-Byte String, and MySQL under Extensions on Choose Items to Install page
6. Modify Apache’s configuration file C:\Apache\conf\httpd.conf, search for <IfModule dir_module>, add index.php to DirectoryIndex item
7. Create phpinfo.php in C:\Apache\htdocs with only one line code: <?php phpinfo(); ?>, restart Apache server, type http://localhost/phpinfo.php in your web browser, you should see a php configuration page

Install PHPMyAdmin
1. Refer to instructions on http://www.webmasterstop.com/48-4.html
2. Extract the directory to C:\Apache\htdocs, rename it to phpMyAdmin
3. In C:\Apache\htdocs\phpMyAdmin, copy config.sample.inc.php to config.inc.php
4. Copy libmysql.dll (in C:\PHP) and php_mysql.dll (in C:\PHP\ext) to C:\Apache\bin
5. Type http://localhost/phpMyAdmin in your browser, you should be able to login and browse the database

Install Java and Tomcat, Integrate Tomcat with Apache

Download
· JRE & JDK 6u1: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
· Tomcat 6.0.10: http://www.reverse.net/pub/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.10/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.10.exe
· JK-apache-2.2.4: http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/binaries/win32/jk-1.2.22/mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so

Install Java
1. Run the installation file
2. Change the installation directory to C:\Java\jdk and C:\Java\jre
3. Set JAVA_HOME to C:\Java\jre, add C:\Java\jre\bin to PATH

Install Tomcat
1. Run the installation file
2. Change the installation directory to C:\Tomcat
3. Start the service, enter http://localhost:8080/ in your browser, you should see Tomcat page

Integrate Tomcat with Apache
1. Copy mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so to C:\Apache\modules
2. Create file workers.properties in C:\Tomcat\conf, like

workers.tomcat_home=C:\Tomcat
workers.java_home=C:\Java\jre
ps=\
worker.list=ajp13
worker.ajp13.port=8009
worker.ajp13.host=localhost
worker.ajp13.type=ajp13
worker.ajp13.lbfactor=1

3. Configure Apache, add index.jsp to DirectoryIndex, add the following lines to httpd.conf

LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so
<IfModule jk_module>
JkWorkersFile "C:\\Tomcat\\conf\\workers.properties"
JkLogFile "C:\\Tomcat\\logs\\mod_jk2.log"
JkLogLevel info
JkMount /servlet/* ajp13
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /*.do ajp13
</IfModule>

4. Open C:\Tomcat\conf\server.xml, insert the following line between <host> and </host>
<context crosscontext="true" reloadable="true" debug="0" docbase="C:\Apache\htdocs" path="">
5. Restart Apache and Tomcat
6. Access http://localhost/ and http://localhost:8080/, you should see the same page
7. Create test.php (just one line: <?php echo “Welcome to PHP World!”; ?>) and test.jsp (one line also: <% out.println(“Welcome to JSP World!”); %>) in C:\Apache\htdocs, access http://localhost/test.php and http://localhost/test.jsp, you should see different welcome messages.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

sorry I dont understand part 3 .Can you gıve me some more detail or example. (Sorry for my english)

Nagendra Reddy said...

Thank you for full installing guide on typical technologies like apache tomcat,MySQL.