LAMP in openSUSE

**suse_tpx60s** · 05-Jul-2009, 10:51

I'm in the process of developing a website in Joomla and have been using WAMP in XP on my laptop. Now that I've moved to openSUSE, I'd like to set up the LAMP stack so I can move the site over from XP to Linux.

What's the best way of setting this up in openSUSE?

**ken_yap** · 05-Jul-2009, 10:56

Install the LAMP pattern from YaST, for a start.

**suse_tpx60s** · 05-Jul-2009, 11:00

Thanks. I did a search for lamp in YAST but it came up with nothing. I always forget about the patterns option in YAST.

**ken_yap** · 05-Jul-2009, 11:07

Next, enable the PHP module in Apache, so that it will process PHP scripts.

a2enmod php5

Make sure apache2 and mysql are running by enabling them in YaST.

Then extract Joomla in /srv/www/htdocs, point your browser to the config page, and follow Joomla's instructions to create a configuration.

**suse_tpx60s** · 05-Jul-2009, 11:46

Thanks. So is htdocs the www root folder of the web server, i.e. anything that is displayed on a web page goes in here?

**ken_yap** · 05-Jul-2009, 12:19

Not necessarily. You can put web pages pretty much anywhere if you know how to Alias them. But it is the default DocumentRoot so it's as good a place as any to start.

**suse_tpx60s** · 05-Jul-2009, 12:40

Thanks. I've got the joomla installation page up.

**Unseen-Ghost** · 05-Jul-2009, 19:15

Hey TPX,

I just finished installing a LAMP server on my OpenSUSE 11.1 system a few weeks ago, so I hope I can be of some help to you. The first step is to install the packages for the LAMP server, which you have already done. Once you have the files installed for the server, the next step is to configure the server to run automatically and run HTTP properly. There are many ways to configure the server, but I'm going to give you the steps I used, which worked out great and are working properly for me. The URL for the tutorial is as follows:

Install & Configure LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) in openSUSE 11.0

(Not my personal tutorial. Found on Google)

While the title says 11.0, it will also work with 11.1.

I hope that helps!

**suse_tpx60s** · 06-Jul-2009, 00:54

Thanks. I eventually found this guide which is similar. Linux Apache MySQL PHP Server (lamp).
It all seemed to go fine except in phpmyadmin I have a warning saying "The additional features for working with linked tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here." which I haven't looked into yet. Joomla installed fine despite that warning.