How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS

By rockia on May 06, 2010 with Comments 22

As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that. My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up your server. However, I don’t consider myself as one of Linux guru so I am going to do it the lazy way.

Before I go any further, I would like to give the credits of the pre-made package to the Chinese developer Licess; if you are happy with his/her work, please donate some money to him/her and keep the project going, you can donate the money by clicking the donate button on this page: http://www.lnmp.org/donation.html .

Linux supported:

Debian (32bit or 64bit), Ubuntu or CentOS

Included Software:

Nginx
MySQL
PHP
PHPMyAdmin
Zend Optimizer
eAccelerator (Optional)
Nginx-RRD
vsFTPD (Optional)

What does LNMP stand for?

LNMP is be abbreviation for Linux+Nginx+MySQL+PHP.

Why I chose Nginx rather than Apache, considering Apache has bigger user group and better support from the whole community? Well, I only get the cheapest plan form Linode and I would like to save as much memory as possible for my running websites. Nginx is a light-weight web server that will do pretty much the same thing as Apache. And you know what? Even WordPress.com is using Nginx as their web server and so that I think Nginx is good for me to host my own wordpress blog.

OK, now let’s get started.

1. Download Licess’ LNMP Package:

Use your SSH client software to login your Linux server (in this case, either Debian or CentOS), since I am using Mac OS X so I can simply use my Terminal and type in “ssh root@my_ip_address” (my_ip_address is my IP address). However, there are numerous SSH client software with very good GUI that will help you log in.

Now with your root account signed in, you can go ahead to download the software with the following command line:

wget -c http://www.rockia.com/dl/lnmp0.4.tar.gz

2. Unzip LNMP Package:

Within the same directory, run the following command line to unzip the file you just downloaded:

tar zxvf lnmp0.4.tar.gz

3. Run installation script

Once you unzipped the package, you should be able to see there is a folder in the same directory. If you want to make sure if it’s there or you would like to double check the folder’s name, you can run the following command line:

ls

The default folder name is “lnmp0.4“, we can navigate to this folder by typing in the following command line:

cd lnmp0.4

And you can find there are different installation scripts in the folder, you should choose different installation script if you are using different OS, for example, if you are using Debian or Ubuntu, you can type in the following command line:

./debian.sh

If you are using CentOS, then the command line should be:

./centos.sh

The installation should start instantly once you hit enter.

4. Simple Setting During Installation

During the installation, you will be prompted to type in your domain name and set your password for your root database.

In my case, the domain name is www.rockia.com.

For the domain name, if you are not ready yet, just simply type in your IP address and the default root MySQL database password is “root” if you don’t want to set one at that moment, and you can change it very easily later when your server is ready to go.

You will also be asked to type in your server location which you can choose from Asia、America、Europe、Oceania or Africa.

The whole installation could take up to 10 minutes and the following software will be installed according to your OS chosen:

Nginx、PHP、MySQL、phpMyAdmin、Zend

5. Install Optional Software

The LNMP 0.4 package also include eAccelerator and PureFTPd with admin panel, if you would like to install there packages, just type in the following command lines:

./eaccelerator.sh

If you would like to install PureFTPd, you will need first type in the command line to install the service:

./pureftpd.sh

Once the service is installed, you will need to visit http://your.own.ip.address/ftp/install.php (replace your.own.ip.address with your IP address of the server) to install the Admin Panel for PureFTPd. I didn’t install PureFTPd for my server so I will skip the introduction here but it should be fairly easy and staright forward.

6. Test Your LNMP Server

The installation is considered to be done. If you would like to test your server, you can use the following PHP pages to test your server:
phpinfo : http://your IP/phpinfo.php
phpMyAdmin : http://your IP/phpmyadmin/
Pointer : http://your IP/p.php

Here is how you can manage your server:

LNMP Server： /root/lnmp {start|stop|reload|restart|kill|status}
PureFTPd Server /root/pureftpd {start|stop|restart|kill|status}

Let’s say, if you would like to restart your LNMP server, just use your root account to log into SSH, and then type in /root/lnmp restart

7. For WordPress Users

You might found some problems with the URL rewrite function (Permalinks) or Super Cache if you use it. The solution is posted on Rockia.com, you may find it helpful.

Post Note:

Isn’t that simple? Please let me know if you have problems understanding my post or you need some help on your server setup. However, I must say that I am not a pro on Linux platform and I personally not the maker of the package.

If you are looking for a reliable VPS, I strongly recommend Linode VPS, and if you are ready to buy a Linode VPS, please use the following link to sign up. I am not going to set up a trap, this is my referral link, if you don’t want to give me a referral, just simply type in linode.com in you browser.

http://www.linode.com/?r=fd71913368eb7c8ef638f842af2b45d49a2966a7

If you want me to help you with Linode, I can give it a try too.

Once again, I am here to thank Lincess the developer who worked hard for this package; it really saved me some time on the server set up and optimization.

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Tags: CentOS • Debian • domain • hosting • Linux • MySQL • Nginx • PHP • PureFTPd • Ubuntu