Raspberry Pi – as a web server Part 2 (PHP)

The first part of this mini series covered installing Apache on the Raspberry Pi, you should have a web server installed as a pre-requisite before installing PHP.

Install Apache

Install PHP

Install MYSQL

Install PHP My Admin

Firstly, launch LXTerminal on the Raspberry Pi or SSH into it.

Next, we want elevated priveleges, so:

sudo bash

next, we install PHP:

apt-get install php5

There are quite alot of packages for PHP, to get all the pacakges you could run this command instead:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-perl2 php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-domxml php5-gd php5-imap php5-ldap php5-mcal php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-odbc php5-pear php5-xslt

Now you have PHP installed, we need to reboot, then we can test the install

reboot

Now we have rebooted, we can test the PHP installation, open up a new terminal window and type:

cd /var/www
sudo nano phpinfo.php

type the following into Nano:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

press CTRL x and then Y and then enter to save and exit

Next, point your browser to http://your-raspberry-pi-ip/phpinfo.php

you should see something similar to the below..

 

Concgratulations, you now have PHP running!

Other articles in this series:

Raspberry Pi – as a web server Part 1 (Apache)

 

 

 

 

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