install apache, mysql and php on centos

Below are the steps to install LAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL in Linux) using Yum:-

• Go to CentOS and download a copy of CentOS Linux and install it (i’ll not go thru the how to install CentOS with you here)
• Once your CentOS is installed. Open a terminal (if you are using X-Window), and type yum install httpd and follow on screen instruction to install apache web server
• Once apache web server has been installed, type yum install php
• Once php installed try to install it's extension type yum install php-common php-gd php-mcrypt php-memchache php-mhash php-mysql php-xml
• Once PHP installed successfully, type yum install mysql-server mysql
• Once everything finish, type service httpd start to start your apache web server, screen will show you if web server service successfully started
• type service mysqld start to start your mysql server
• Once both services is running, you can point your browser to http://localhost and you should see a welcome page from CentOS
• If you see that welcome page, you just installed everything successfull.
• To test if php is running, go to /var/www/html and create an index.php file with the content below
  
  and refresh your browser again. If you see a purple PHP information page showing all the php configuration variables, then php is running now.
• Congratulation, you just successfully installed LAMP in your machine.