Super Easy Magento Compatible Centos Install

The Basic Magento Web Server Install Guide

This install guide assumes that you already have the basic install of Centos 5.6 complete. We will now install Apache, MySQL and PHP 5.2.17 First let's install some basic tools

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'

Ok let's install Apache, NTP and MySQL

yum install ntp httpd mysql-server httpd-devel

Look to see what PHP packages are installed and remove any if needed.

rpm -qa | grep php

remove all php 5.3 packages We are going to need some re-requisites for our PHP so lets install them now!!

yum install libc-client libmcrypt libmhash net-snmp libtidy  unixODBC-devel libpng-devel libmcrypt-devel

Now we are ready to install PHP5.2.17

cd ~/mkdir php5.2.17
cd php5.2.17
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-bcmath-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-cli-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-common-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-dba-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-devel-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-eaccelerator-5.2.17_0.9.6.1-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-gd-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-imap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-ldap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mbstring-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mcrypt-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mhash-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mysql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-ncurses-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-odbc-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-pdo-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-pgsql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-readline-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-snmp-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-soap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-tidy-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-xml-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-xmlrpc-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
rpm -ivh *.rpm

(I removed wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mssql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm') Make sure MySQL is on

chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start

And let's make sure we have MySQL locked down (follow instructions)

mysql_secure_installation

Make sure Apache is on

chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
/etc/init.d/httpd start

Finally, add another repo

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://centos.karan.org/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

then make the following changes:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

gpgcheck to 0 and enabled to 1 in the [kbs-CentOS-Testing] You will need to configure your Apache and MySQL