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FreeBSD

How To Install an Nginx, MySQL, and PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1

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Introduction

Nginx, MySQL, and PHP can be combined together easily as a powerful solution for serving dynamic content on the web. These three pieces of software can be installed and configured on a FreeBSD machine to create what is known as a FEMP stack.

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install a FEMP stack on a FreeBSD 10.1 server. We will be installing the software using packages in order to get up and running more quickly. These packages provide reasonable defaults that work well for most servers.

Install the Components

To begin, we will install all of the software we need using FreeBSD packages system. The “install” command will update our local copy of the available packages and then install the packages we have requested: Continue reading How To Install an Nginx, MySQL, and PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1 →

FreeBSD

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1

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Introduction

A FAMP stack, which is similar to a LAMP stack on Linux, is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web apps. FAMP is an acronym that stands for FreeBSD (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database server), and PHP (to process dynamic PHP content).

In this guide, we’ll get a FAMP stack installed on a FreeBSD 10.1 cloud server using pkg, the FreeBSD package manager.

Prerequisites

Before you begin this guide, you should have a FreeBSD 10.1 server. Also, you must connect to your FreeBSD server as a user with superuser privileges (i.e. is allowed to use sudo or change to the root user).

Step One — Install Apache

The Apache web server is currently the most popular web server in the world, which makes it a great choice for hosting a website.

We can install Apache easily using FreeBSD’s package manager, pkg. A package manager allows us to install most software pain-free from a repository maintained by FreeBSD. You can learn more about how to use pkg here.

To install Apache 2.4 using pkg, use this command: Continue reading How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1 →

Linux

Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 14.04

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Introduction

The LEMP software stack is a group of software that can be used to serve dynamic web pages and web applications. This is an acronym that describes a Linux operating system, with an Nginx web server. The backend data is stored in MySQL and the dynamic processing is handled by PHP.

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install a LEMP stack on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. The Ubuntu operating system takes care of the first requirement. We will describe how to get the rest of the components up and running.

Note: The LEMP Stack can be installed automatically on your Droplet by adding this script to its User Data when launching it. Check out this tutorial to learn more about Droplet User Data.

Prerequisites

Before you complete this tutorial, you should have a regular, non-root user account on your server with sudo privileges. You can learn how to set up this type of account by completing steps 1-4 in our Ubuntu 14.04 initial server setup.

Once you have your account available, sign into your server with that username. You are now ready to begin the steps outlined in this guide. Continue reading Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 14.04 →