Production LAMP system: Lighttpd + PHP + MySQL
In production web, LAMP means Linux + Apache + Mysql + Php installed and integrated, but today the "A" of apache are more used as Nginx or Lighttpd, and the "M" of MySQL are more used as Mariadb, the LAMP focused documents are:
1. The web server part: Lighttpd
lighttpd is a simple, standards-compliant, secure, and flexible web server, Nginx are the most use due are administrable by ISP panel's software, but lighttpd performs better always. Nginx could not process fast-cgi programs.
Lighttpd Installation
Production environment only will handle need packages.. so no doc or manages allowed:
- run apk for need packages
apk add lighttpd gamin
Lighttpd pre php configuration
- make the htdos public web root directories
- change default port to production one, http are used with 80
- use FAM style (gamin) file alteration monitor, increases performance
- use linux event handler, increases performance due Alpine are linux only
- added the service to the default runlevel, not to boot, because need networking activated
- started the web server service
- Enable the mod_status at the config files
- change path in the config file, we are using security by obfuscation
- restart the service to see changes at the browser
mkdir -p /var/www/localhost/htdocs /var/log/lighttpd /var/lib/lighttpd sed -i -r 's#\#.*server.port.*=.*#server.port = 80#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf sed -i -r 's#.*server.stat-cache-engine.*=.*# server.stat-cache-engine = "fam"#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf sed -i -r 's#\#.*server.event-handler = "linux-sysepoll".*#server.event-handler = "linux-sysepoll"#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf mkdir -p /var/lib/lighttpd chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /var/www/localhost/ chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /var/lib/lighttpd chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /var/log/lighttpd rc-update add lighttpd default rc-service lighttpd restart echo "it works" > /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.html mkdir -p /var/www/localhost/htdocs/stats sed -i -r 's#\#.*mod_status.*,.*# "mod_status",#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf sed -i -r 's#.*status.status-url.*=.*#status.status-url = "/stats/server-status"#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf sed -i -r 's#.*status.config-url.*=.*#status.config-url = "/stats/server-config"#g' /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf rc-service lighttpd restart
For testing open a browser and go to http://<webserveripaddres> and you will see "it works". The "webserveripaddres" are the ip address of your setup/server machine.
There's a problem in Alpine linux, FAM (gamin) are activated as a lighttpd only service, that's make sense in dockers but in servers could be a problem if FAM (gamin) are also need for others services at the same time.
2. The php scripting part: PHP fpm
In Alpine there's two main language for programming dynamic web pages: PHP and LUA. Alpine are minimalist so not all PHP packages are need in most cases, both repositories must be enabled (main and community), here are explained the most common used in production, for PHP at development please watch the Alpine_newbie_developer wiki page.
PHP Installation
Since version v3.5, PHP 7 is available along with PHP 5.6 coexisting together, until version v3.9 where the latter was removed. So for Alpine 3.5+m we will assume PHP7, if you need PHP5.6 still could use it, that wil be cover in the special Production LAMP system: Lighttpd + PHP5 + MySQL wiki page for older Alpine systems and some specific php softwares.
apk add php7 php7-bcmath php7-bz2 php7-ctype php7-curl php7-dba php7-dom php7-enchant php7-exif php7-fpm php7-gd php7-gettext php7-gmp php7-iconv php7-imap php7-intl php7-json php7-mbstring php7-opcache php7-openssl php7-phar php7-posix php7-pspell php7-recode php7-session php7-simplexml php7-sockets php7-sysvmsg php7-sysvsem php7-sysvshm php7-tidy php7-tokenizer php7-xml php7-xmlreader php7-xmlrpc php7-xmlwriter php7-xsl php7-zip php7-odbc php7-sqlite3
NOTE: next packages are only for specific situations.. only install when need (specially php-pear one): php7-pgsql php7-mysqli php7-mysqlnd php7-snmp php7-soap php7-ldap php7-pcntl php7-pear php7-shmop php7-wddx php7-cgi