I was able to set up a LAMP on Arch Linux. Now I’m trying to install wordpress on it using SSH, but it keeps on failing. Is there a way to access my new LAMP server using a FTP client? Can you help me out here what steps to take?

Hi,

You would need to install an FTP server in order to be able to access your server via an FTP account.

However, you should be able to install Wordpress using SSH and we have some articles that can help you with that: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-on-centos-6--2

This is for CentOS but the majority of things should be very similar.

If you are running into a particular problem paste us your error messages and we’ll help you troubleshoot it.

Arch Linux has moved to use systemd instead of init so rc.d method for starting MySQL daemon will not work when pacman -Syu has been used right after a new droplet has been set up.

So the solution goes like this:

• pacman -Sy to update the repository database

• replace pacman

• pacman -S mysql

• pacman -S glibc (needs to be renewed or the MySQL daemon won’t start)

• making the folder needed for MySQL logs: mkdir /var/log/mysql chown mysql:mysql /var/log/mysql chmod 750 /var/log/mysql

• editing /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[mysqld_safe] log-error=/var/log/mysql/error.log

[mysqld] log-error=/var/log/mysql/error.log

• sudo /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &
• sudo mysql_secure_installation
• kill the mysqld_safe
• get the daemon handling script for /etc/rc.d/mysqld from a previous installation or from another server

when I do sudo pacman -Syu, it says sudo: pacman: command not found

This guide is a bit out-dated, systemd has replaced sysvinit/initscripts. Daemons do not go in rc.conf anymore, but are handled by systemd. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd

As of 2013-03-25 mysql is no longer an offical package for Arch, see https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/ for the announcement.

You must update the command “sudo pacman -S mysql” to “sudo pacman -S mariadb” because Arch Linux didn’t use MySQL from time ago.

We have updated the article re: mariadb.

I am not able to locate the ip address of my virtualbox.ifconfig|grep inet is giving 10.0.2.15 after installing apache I would like to see index page from my windows7 explorer. How I would do this

@ynomani: Your virtualbox’s IP address is 10.0.2.15, you can browse to http://10.0.2.15 if you want to access Apache on the VM.

When I put the first command it reports: “sudo: pacman: command not found”, I tried to install pacman (sudo apt-get install pacman), but it states: pacman is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I have created the new user, and I am trying to do this from the connection with this new user. Suggestions?

@aramis001: What OS are you using?

Thank you for such a wonderful post it rely helped me a lot

Please how to i run multiple hosts in this apache server?

@acho.arnold: Take a look at this article:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-arch-linux

So I can use pacman to get everything. My problem is after I edit httpd.conf and start apache for the first time i get an error message:

Job for httpd.service failed. See ‘systemctl status httpd.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.

I try httpd -t to learn: httpd: Syntax error on line 65 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so into server: libldap-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help appreciated.

@j_morange: Did you install apache2-ldap?

sudo pacman -S apache2-ldap error: target not found: apache2-ldap

Sounds like it’s about to get complicated?

Fixed - could not find any instructions on this. Ended up adding some more # inside httpd.conf:

line 65: #LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so line 81: #LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so

After a sudo systemctl restart httpd it seemed to work and I was able to browse to my new webpage at localhost.

So new question, I’ve not pretty much finished the install process. However the tutorial is a little incomplete I think, when I got to my localhost, it pops up an index and I actually have to click the info.php file to get it to show the correct page. How can I direct this to run straight away or set it up to put php in html (have allowed .htaccess in httpd.conf and made a .htaccess file with the line ‘AddType application/x-httpd-php .html’, but nothing is working so far).

Thanks very much!

@j_morange: I’m not sure what you mean, can you please explain this part?

<pre>when I got to my localhost, it pops up an index and I actually have to click the info.php file to get it to show the correct page.</pre>

There is a database manager like phpmyadmin for mariadb?

@me: MariDB is a drop-in MySQL replacement which means that phpMyAdmin will work fine with MariaDB.

For some reason when I tried to access the local host using the sever’s ip (which I got by ‘curl -s icanhazip.com’), the page intitally took too long to load, and then eventually “the server was not found”. Using ‘localhost’ in my browser instead of the ip, worked though. I am just mentioning it, in case someone else has a similar issue

I got Wordpress installed, & I can access the Admin Panel, but when I try to to see the front end, all I get is a page that says “Welcome to Arch”

Not sure how I posted that twice, but sorry. Anyway, I know what is happening, but I dont know how to fix it. Obviously it is directing to the place holder page we created in the tutorial. So how do I make it direct to the correct page? I

@wolf: Try clearing your browser’s cache—does that fix it?

why my apache wont running after added line?

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddHandler php5-script php Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf

here error messages :

[luckymeerza@hostname ~]$ sudo systemctl restart httpd Job for httpd.service failed. See ‘systemctl status httpd.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details. [luckymeerza@hostname ~]$ sudo systemctl status httpd ● httpd.service - Apache Web Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2014-08-14 22:48:17 WIB; 7s ago Process: 4009 ExecStop=/usr/bin/apachectl graceful-stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 4098 ExecStart=/usr/bin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 3830 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 14 22:48:17 hostname apachectl[4098]: [Thu Aug 14 22:48:17.6360… Aug 14 22:48:17 hostname apachectl[4098]: AH00013: Pre-configuratio… Aug 14 22:48:17 hostname systemd[1]: httpd.service: control proces…1 Aug 14 22:48:17 hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Web Se… Aug 14 22:48:17 hostname systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered fa… Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

if I remove those 3 lines, apache running well, but apache doesnt interpret my php file.

Thanks, hoping for your support

@mirzalazuardi: Run apachectl configtest It should give you an idea of what the issue might be.

@mirzalazuardi @asb Having same issue, only difference is:

[root@x]# systemctl status httpd.service
● httpd.service - Apache Web Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; ***disabled***)

apachectl configtest

Comes back clean.

I’ve isolated it to only the line

LoadModule php5_module       modules/libphp5.so

Edit: Weird so I ran configtest again and I got an error: “Apache is running a threaded MPM, but your PHP Module is not compiled to be threadsafe.” Easy fix:

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# This line was causing problems, comment it or remove:
# LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so

# Add in this line:
LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so

arch wiki

Hi ,

I installed apache http server and everything going well. I’m using Sublime Text 2 as my text editor.So when i going to save some file after editing it with sublime text it says that "Unable to save file to /svr/http/*** " … I think it happening beacaus of permission problem. I’m using my pc as a normal user (not as the root).how can i solve this.

Thanks !

Thank you!

In the instalation’s step of mariadb before run the command “sudo systemctl start mysqld” gone need run “mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql” . Tried run without it but no work. I’m using Antergos Linux 64-bit

UPDATE for PHP7 In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, comment the line: #LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so

and uncomment the line: LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so

The above is required, because libphp7.so included with php-apache does not work with mod_mpm_event, but will only work mod_mpm_prefork instead.

Then replace:

Use for PHP 5.x:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddHandler php5-script php Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf

With

Use for PHP 7.x:

LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so AddHandler php7-script php Include conf/extra/php7_module.conf

REF: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache_HTTP_Server#PHP

As of recent using MariaDb in Arch it is importan to install and initialize MariaDB date directory using $ sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql

before running sudo mysql_secure_installation

On Manjaro (I don’t know if it applies to another Arch distro) when you install MySQL (MariaDB) you cannot directly start the dbms via sudo systemctl start mysqld. Previous to do it, you’ll need to run mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql to create the MySQL tables in the corresponding directory.

After that, follow the guide as normal.