These instructions are used as reference to install the CentOS 5.5 operating system (i386)

PREREQ:

The 7 CentOS Install CD's (or ISO's if you are building in a Virtual Machine)

Internet Access

1. Insert CentOS CD 1 of 7 and boot from CDROM
2. Press enter on initial CentOS Splash Screen
3. CD Found (you can check the media by pressing enter while OK is highlighted. I tab to Skip and press enter to continue)
4. Click Next
5. Select Language (I'm selecting English) click Next
6. Select Keyboard (I'm selecting U.S. English) click Next
7. WARNING: Initialize Drives.. notifying erasing ALL Data, Click Yes
8. Change selection to Remove all partitions on selected drives, click Next (you may want to select a different setting if you have multiple Operating Systems or other configuration)
9. Remove all partitions on selected drives, click Next
10. WARNING: Confirmation... click Yes
11. Network Setup, (leaving DHCP for now) click Next
12. Select TimeZone and click Next
13. Enter a root password (make difficult for others to guess but don't forget it) click Next
14. Software Applications, Leave just the Desktop - Gnome selected and click Next
15. Begin Install, click Next (recorded info found ./root/install.log and ./root/anaconda-ks.cfg)
16. Required Install Media (which of the 7 CD's you actually will be using based on your selections), click Continue to begin
17. Installation Complete, Click Reboot
18. Welcome message, click Forward
19. Firewall: only checkmarks should be, SSH, HTTP and HTTPS and then click Forward
20. Confirm Setting by clicking Yes
21. SELinux: change setting to Permissive and click Forward
22. Date & Time: make necessary changes and click Forward
23. Create User: enter a username, full name and your password, then click Forward
24. Sound Card: click Forward
25. Additional CDs: click Finish
26. Login Screen: enter username and press enter
27. Login Screen: enter password and press enter
28. In less than 5 minutes you will see in the top right corner of the screen a message that says Updates Available, click on View Updates
29. Package Updater: click Apply Updates
30. Dependencies Added message, then Downloading Packages
31. Import Key message will appear, click on Import key
32. Updating Software message, then Software Update Complete message click OK
33. Click Reboot Now
34. Login Screen: enter username and press enter
35. Login Screen: enter password and press enter
36. Click Applications - Accessories - Terminal
37. type: su and press enter
38. type: root password and press enter
39. type: rm -f /etc/localtime
40. type: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime press enter
41. type: date and press enter(notice if it has UTC in the date command you entered)
42. type: reboot and press enter (this will now sync your daemons with your new timezone of UTC)
43. Login Screen: enter username and press enter
44. Login Screen: enter password and press enter
45. Click Applications - Accessories - Terminal
46. type: su and press enter
47. type: root password and press enter
48. type: nano /etc/hosts (and enter the static IP address and hostname of this server.. not necessarily the web server address)
    1. 
       
       # that require network functionality will fail.
       
       127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
       
       192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1
       
       ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

       # Do not remove the following line, or various programs

       
       
    2. type: nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 (review settings for your device)
       1. 
          
          BOOTPROTO=static
          
          BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
          
          IPADDR=192.168.0.101
          
          IPV6ADDR=
          
          IPV6PREFIX=
          
          NETMASK=255.255.255.0
          
          NETWORK=192.168.0.0
          
          ONBOOT=yes

          DEVICE=eth0:0

          
          
       [*]type: /etc/init.d/network restart[*]type: yum upgrade[*]type: yum update[*]type: yum -y install yum-priorities[*]type:

       rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

       
       [*]type:

       rpm -Uvh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/i386/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm

       
       [*]type: yum -y install httpd[*]type: yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server[*]type: chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on (this adds mysql to start upon reboot)
       
       [*]type: /etc/init.d/mysqld start[*]type: netstat -tap (confirm you see mysql running)[*]type: mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword [*]type: yum remove php php-* (just in case you have a previous version of php installed)[*]type: yum -y install php53u-pear php53u php53u-cli php53u-common php53u-devel php53u-gd php53u-mbstring php53u-mcrypt php53u-mysql php53u-pdo php53u-soap php53u-xml php53u-xmlrpc php53u-bcmath php53u-pecl-apc php53u-pecl-memcache php53u-snmp[*]type: nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
       1. 
          
          // Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
          
          phpinfo();
          
          
          // Show just the module information.
          
          // phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
          
          phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
          
          
          ?>

          <?php 

          
          
          
          
       [*]type: chkconfig httpd on (if you get an error message, type: whereis chkconfig and use the path like /sbin/chkconfig httpd on) [*]type: /sbin/service httpd start or you can type /etc/init.d/httpd start
       [*]open your browser and browse to that phpinfo.php file you just created: http://localhost/phpinfo.php[*]type:

       wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz

       
       [*]type: tar xvfz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz[*]type: cd ioncube[*]type: mkdir /usr/local/ioncube[*]type: cp /home/dennis/* /var/www/html/
       [*]type: nano /etc/php.ini (scroll to the bottom of the file)
       1. 
          
          zend_extension = /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so
          
          
       [*]type: /etc/init.d/httpd restart[*]browse and download the sef_advance_tester.php from

       http://community.mywiseguys.com/files/file/104-sef-advance-tester/

       
       [*]go to your home directory: cd /home/dennis[*]copy sef_advance_tester.php to your html directory: cp sef_advance_tester.php /var/www/html/[*]in browser type:

       http://localhost/sef_advance_tester.php

       
       (ionCube Loader must be green and so must Server Software.. note under additional information PHP Version should be 5.3 or newer)[*]type:

       wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.550-1.noarch.rpm

       [*]type: rpm -ivh webmin-1.550-1.noarch.rpm[*]verify webmin is installed by typing in your browser: http://localhost:10000

       
       

       
       Now you have

       
       

       • CentOS 5.6 installed and updated
       • Apache installed
       • PHP 5.3 installed
       • ionCube installed
       • mySQL installed
       • webmin

       
       PART2 will discuss configuring webmin and installing two virtual websites (not really CentOS specific)

       
       

       sef_advance_tester.php

sef_advance_tester.php

Where's part 2?

I'll start working on it. I got distracted with Ubuntu 11.10 server issues but I can happily say the CentOS server has been VERY reliable.

Thx wildweaselmi for this informative tutorial - especially the video thx again!

Hope part 2 will be out at a cinema near u soon

I keep working on it but it never turns out the way I want it to. I will try and put something up by the end of this week.

This is a great tutorial. I have looked all over the web and this is the best. The only question I have is, what if you connect your machine to router and you restart and you can't connect to the web? what are the steps to know what your motherboard netcard name is and ip set up procedure is.