Setting Up Apache with PHP

2021-03-01T13:56:45Z

D-demirci: /* Installing Apache + PHP */

== Installing Apache + PHP ==

Enable the repositories:

<pre><nowiki>
cat > /etc/apk/repositories << EOF
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v$(cat /etc/alpine-release | cut -d'.' -f1,2)/main
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v$(cat /etc/alpine-release | cut -d'.' -f1,2)/community
EOF

apk update
</nowiki></pre>

Add the main packages with the command:

{{Cmd|<nowiki>export phpverx=$(alpinever=$(cat /etc/alpine-release|cut -d '.' -f1);[ $alpinever -ge 9 ] && echo 7|| echo 5)</nowiki>}}
{{Cmd|apk add apache2 php$phpverx-apache2}}

If you get an exception like unsatisfible dependency use the above command like this:
{{Cmd|<nowiki>export phpverx=$(alpinever=$(cat /etc/alpine-release);[ ${alpinever//./} -ge 309 ] && echo 7|| echo 5)</nowiki>}}
then
{{Cmd|apk add apache2 php$phpverx-apache2}}
or just change {{Cmd| -f1 to -f2 }} in the original command.

The <code>php"$phpverx"-apache2</code> will be "5" or "7" depending of the alpine version installed, since alpine 3.9 there's only the php7 packages.

== Testing ==

Move to the directory where your site will reside:

{{Cmd|cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs}}

And create an index.php file to test if everything is ok:

{{Cmd|vi index.php}}

Add the following lines in the file:

<pre>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</pre>

That done, let us start apache2 web server:

{{Cmd|rc-service apache2 start}}

Now access: http://<ip_address> and if everything is ok you will see the PHP info page.

== Ending ==

Finally let us set up apache2 to start on operating system startup:

{{Cmd|rc-update add apache2}}

Now you can create your PHP site and host in this directory.

== Note ==
This is the easiest way to setup Apache with PHP support, but it's the most inefficient (resource wise) setup, please refer to [[Apache with php-fpm]]

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