Setting Up a LAMP Server With Raspberry Pi

This repo is just a review of the great material done by the Random Nerd Tutorials.

The main purpose here was to list the steps and commands used to set up the Raspberry Pi with a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Steps Using SSH (Secure Shell) Connection.

Get SSH Acess to Raspberry PI

Open the bash (Linux or MAC OS) or PowerShell for Windows and type:

commands

ssh raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP

It will ask for the password configured for the Raspberry Pi user during the Raspbian installation.

Updating and Upgrading

commands:

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Install Apache2

commands:

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo apt install apache2 -y

Check Apache2 Installation

Access the directory using the commands below and check if there is an "index.html" file

commands:

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: cd /var/www/html

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: cd /var/www/html $ ls -la

Verifying the Raspberry Pi IP

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: hostname -I

Checking if the server is running

Open your browser and type:

http://<your_raspberrypi_IP>:

Install PHP

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo apt install php -y

Replacing the index.html to an index.php file

1- Go to the directory /var/www/html/ again.

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: cd /var/www/html/

2- Remove the file index.html

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: cd /var/www/html $ sudo rm index.html

3- Create the index.php file and edit whichever you wish to write:

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: cd /var/www/html $ sudo nano index.php

4- After opening the nano text editor you can type the following just to test the server running with a different index file:

[verbose]<?php

echo "Hello world!"

?>

5- Save the file by typing Ctrl + X and confirm the file name by pressing Y and Enter.

Restart Apache2

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo service apache2 restart

1-Repeat the process before by opening the browser and typing http://<your_raspberrypi_IP>:

to see if your index.php will be shown.

2- If everything goes nicely, then you can remove the file index.php from the path /var/www/html/

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: /var/www/html $ sudo rm index.php

Install MySQL (MariaDB Server)

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo apt install mariadb-server php-mysql -y

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo service apache2 restart

Setting some security parameters

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo mysql_secure_installation

It will appear the following message:

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NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and haven't set the root password yet, you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none):

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Choose a password and press Enter. Don't lose it, because you'll need for the next steps and to get access to manage the MySQL databases used in your projects.

1- Type in Y to Remove anonymous users

2- Type in n to Dissallow root login remotely | | -> This works to give root acces from another terminal connected to the Raspberry Pi using SSH.

3- Type in Y to Remove test database and access to it 4- Type in Y to Reload privilege tables now

After that the message "Thanks for using MariaDB!" pops up.

Install phpMyAdmin

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo apt install phpmyadmin -y

The phpMyAdmin installation process requires you choose some options like:

1- Select Apache2 when prompted and press Enter 2- Configuring phpmyadmin? Yes and press Enter 3- Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common? Yes 4- Type your password and press OK

5- Enable the PHP MySQLi extension and restart Apache2:

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo phpenmod mysqli

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: sudo service apache2 restart

6- Move the phpmyadmin directory to /var/www/html

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP:/var/www/html $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

Testing the acess on phpMyAdmin

Load you browser and type http://<you_raspberrypi_IP>/phpmyadmin and you shoudl see the phpMyAdming login page:

Other useful setups:

To deal with you web pages, it's worth to change the permissions for the path /var/www/html/. To do so, type the commands below:

commands

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: ~ $ ls -lh /var/www/

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: ~ $ sudo chown -R pi:www-data /var/www/html/

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: ~ $ sudo chmod -R 770 /var/www/html/

raspberrypi_user@your_raspberrypi_IP: ~ $ ls -lh /var/www/

Thanks.