About LEMP Stack
LEMP is a combination of the operating system and open-source software stack. LEMP is acronym of Linux, Nginx(engine-x) HTTP Server, MySQL/MariaDB database, and PHP/Perl/Python. Compared to LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, perl/php/python), LEMP is light weight, fast, and able to handle much higher load using the same set of hardware. Don’t get me wrong. I won’t say LEMP is better than LAMP stack. It is purely depends on what you want to deploy on your web server.
In this tutorial, let us see to how to setup LEMP stack using CentMin Mod, a shell menu based NGINX installer for CentOS servers.
About Centmin Mod
For those who don’t know, Centmin Mod is a shell menu based auto-installer script for LEMP stack. The shell based menu allows Nginx and PHP version management, upgrading or downgrading Nginx and PHP or setting up Nginx vhosts. At present, Centmin Mod supports CentOS 5.x and 6.x versions only. The testing for CentOS 7.x version is going on.
Centmin Mod script will install the following softwares automatically.
- Nginx 1.7.12 (https / SPDY SSL + ngx_pagespeed support) ;
- PHP 5.4.41 (php-fpm) with support for PHP 5.3/5.4/5.5/5.6 ;
- MariaDB 5.5.43 ;
- PHP opcode cache: Zend OpCache 7.0.4, APC Cache 3.13, Xcache 3.1.0 ;
- Memcached Server 1.4.20 and Memcache 3.0.8 PHP Extension ;
- Libmemcached 1.0.18 and Memcached 2.2.0 PHP Extension (Centmin Mod v1.2.3-eva2000.01+) ;
- Multi-threaded compression: pigz, pbzip2, lbzip2, plzip, p7zip (optional) ;
- CSF Firewall.
Centmin Mod Installation
In this tutorial, let us see how to deploy LEMP stack in CentOS 6.6 64bit version using Centmin Mod script.
First of all, update your system
yum update -y
And, Install the following prerequisites too.
yum install bc wget unzip yum-plugin-fastestmirror -y
We can install Centmin Mod in three different methods.
Method 1:
This is the traditional method. Just download the script archive, extract it and run the script using the following command and select menu option 1.
Download latest version of Centmin Mod:
cd /usr/local/src wget http://centminmod.com/download/centmin-v1.2.3-eva2000.07.zip
Note: DO NOT download to /tmp and run centmin.sh from /tmp as Centmin Mod removes the ability to execute scripts from /tmp as a security precaution. Also the downloaded contents must NOT be deleted or removed as subsequent runs of centmin.sh to use menu options require certain files and scripts in place.
Extract the downloaded zip file using command:
unzip centmin-v1.2.3-eva2000.07.zip
Go to the centmin directory:
cd centmin-v1.2.3mod/
Set execute permissions to the centmin.sh script with command:
chmod +x centmin.sh
Finally, run the script to deploy LEMP stack:
./centmin.sh
You will see the following shell menu based installer. Enter ‘1’ to start install Centmin.
---------------------------- Configure sshd_config ---------------------------- Reloading sshd: [ OK ] -------------------------------------------------------- Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.07 - http://centminmod.com -------------------------------------------------------- Centmin Mod Menu -------------------------------------------------------- 1). Centmin Install 2). Add Nginx vhost domain 3). NSD setup domain name DNS 4). Nginx Upgrade / Downgrade 5). PHP Upgrade / Downgrade 6). XCache Re-install 7). APC Cache Re-install 8). XCache Install 9). APC Cache Install 10). Memcached Server Re-install 11). MariaDB 5.2, 5.5, 10 Upgrade Sub-Menu 12). Zend OpCache Install/Re-install 13). Install ioping.sh vbtechsupport.com/1239/ 14). SELinux disable 15). Install/Re-install ImageMagick PHP Extension 16). Change SSHD Port Number 17). Multi-thread compression: pigz,pbzip2,lbzip2,p7zip etc 18). Suhosin PHP Extension install 19). Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG PHP Extension 20). NSD Re-install 21). Update - Nginx + PHP-FPM + Siege 22). Exit -------------------------------------------------------- Enter option [ 1 - 22 ] 1
The Centmin Mod will disable SELinux to reduce the complexity during installation.
--------------------------------------------------------------- SELINUX linux detected --------------------------------------------------------------- disabling SELINUX... will require a server reboot before running initial install SELINUX disabled, please reboot server and rerun install
Reboot your server now.
reboot
After logging in to the Server, go to the Centmin Mod folder, and run the script again.
cd centmin-v1.2.3mod/
./centmin.sh
Now, select the first option from the menu to continue installing centmin..
Method 2:
Second method, from unattended CLI command line via SSH commandfrom within download zip files extracted directory:
./centmin.sh install
Method 3:
Third method, from one liner CLI install via SSH command below which basically invokes the ./centmin.sh install method via curl:
curl -sL http://centminmod.com/installer.sh | bash
The last two CLI command line methods are great for 100% unattended Centmin Mod installs .
In this tutorial, I used the third method, and it’s worked well as expected.
After running the script, the following screen will appear. Sit back and grab a cup of coffee. Centmin Mod script will automatically add the necessary repositories and install LEMP stack. This will take few minutes depending upon your Internet connection and server configuration.
That’s it. LEMP stack has been successfully deployed now.
Finally, you may get the output like below.
************************************************* * Centmin Mod install completed.... ************************************************* ************************************************* * Setup memcached_*.php admin page ... ************************************************* Setup Memcached Server Admin Login Details for /usr/local/nginx/html/memcache_26636.php current memcached username: memcacheuser current memcached password: memcachepass ************************************************* Memcached Server Admin Login: /usr/local/nginx/html/memcache_26636.php new memcached username: memadmin810f8efcf2 new memcached password: decc4a2cd82cad64f458ccfc ************************************************* ************************************************* * memcache_26636.php admin page installed ************************************************* ************************************************* * MariaDB Security Setup ************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------- MySQL root user password set MySQL root user added to /root/.my.cnf ------------------------------------------------------- MySQL root password: npxV05nrsiRebzqM ------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************* * MariaDB Security Setup Completed ************************************************* -------------------------------------------------------- Please bookmark: -------------------------------------------------------- ############################################################### * Getting Started Guide - http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html * Find the latest Centmin Mod version - http://centminmod.com * Centmin Mod FAQ - http://centminmod.com/faq.html * Change Log - http://centminmod.com/changelog.html * Google+ Page latest news http://centminmod.com/gpage * Community Forums https://community.centminmod.com (signup) ############################################################### # Cheap VPS Hosting at Digitalocean # https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c1cb367108e8 ############################################################### ccache stats: cache directory /home/.ccache cache hit (direct) 778 cache hit (preprocessed) 306 cache miss 3435 called for link 235 called for preprocessing 244 compile failed 55 preprocessor error 62 bad compiler arguments 54 unsupported source language 78 autoconf compile/link 612 unsupported compiler option 14 no input file 170 files in cache 7169 cache size 208.4 Mbytes max cache size 2.0 Gbytes Total YUM Time: 1728.033043453 seconds Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 5182.295676887 seconds
Please note down the MySQL and Memcached login and password details. You may need them later.
From now on you can add virtual hosts, upgrade PHP, MariaDB etc.
Let us check if Nginx is installed correctly. Open the Web browser and navigate to http://ip-address/. You should see the nginx test page.
To view the nginx version, run:
nginx -v
Sample output:
nginx version: nginx/1.7.12
Check php version:
php -v
Sample output:
PHP 5.4.41 (cli) (built: May 19 2015 10:12:54) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
Check mysql version:
mysql -v
Sample output:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 6 Server version: 5.5.43-MariaDB MariaDB Server Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Reading history-file /root/.mysql_history Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]>
Congratulations! LEMP stack is ready to use.
For detailed guide about Centmin Mod, check the getting started with Centmin Mod page.
Updating to latest stable version
Centmin Mod .07 stable over time may get bug fixes or minor updates. So to grab the latest code at least, it’s basically the same as Method 1 instructions above minus the need to run initial install if you are on an existing Centmin Mod .07 stable based server environment and needing to remove the old zip and extracted folder first.
Go to the directory where you downloaded the centmin script and delete it.
cd /usr/local/src
rm -rf centmin*
Then, download the most recent version using command:
wget http://centminmod.com/download/centmin-v1.2.3-eva2000.07.zip
Extract the downloaded zip archive:
unzip centmin-v1.2.3-eva2000.07.zip
Change to the extracted directory:
cd centmin-v1.2.3mod
Finally run the following command to upgrade it.
chmod +x centmin.sh
That’s it. We have successfully deployed LEMP stack using Centmin Mod.
You might want to check other NGINX auto-installer scripts for CentOS.
I don’t like scripts, I want to setup LEMP server step by step myself. How I can do that?
No worries, It is not that difficult!
Refer the following links to setup LEMP stacks manually yourself.
For CentOS:
- Install LEMP Server (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) On CentOS 7
- Install LEMP Server (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) On CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux 6.5/6.4/6.3
For Debian/Ubuntu:
- How To Install LEMP Stack On Ubuntu 15.04
- EasyEngine – An Auto Installer Script For Managing WordPress-Nginx Websites On Ubuntu, Debian
- Install LEMP Server (nginx, MySQL or MariaDB, PHP) On Debian 7 Wheezy
For SUSE/openSUSE:
Cheers!!
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