PHP related tutorial/FAQ

Amazon Linux AMI Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP)

last updated October 15, 2019 in Amazon Cloud Computing, Linux, MySQL, Nginx, PHP

How do I install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Amazon Linux AMI running on AWS?

How to install LAMP on Debian 10 (Buster)

last updated July 15, 2019 in Apache, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, MySQL, PHP

How do I install a LAMP stack on Debian 10 (Buster)?

How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On RHEL 8

last updated December 14, 2018 in Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, RedHat and Friends

How do I set up a LAMP stack on RHEL 8 cloud server or VPS or bare metal server? How can I install Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP (LAMP) stack On RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 8?

FreeBSD install PHP 7.2 with FPM for Nginx

last updated September 24, 2018 in FreeBSD, FreeBSD Jails (VPS), Nginx, PHP

How do I install install PHP 7.2 with FPM for Nginx web server running on FreeBSD operating system?

How to install PHP 7.2 on CentOS 7/RHEL 7

last updated July 22, 2018 in CentOS, Nginx, PHP, RedHat and Friends

How do I Install PHP 7.2 on CentOS 7 server? How can I setup and install PHP 7.2 on RHEL 7 server along with Nginx web server? How do I configure PHP-fpm version 7.2 with Nginx server running on a CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7?

How to hide PHP 5/7 version when using Nginx

last updated June 24, 2019 in Alpine Linux, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, PHP, RedHat and Friends, Security, Security Through Obscurity, UNIX

I am using PHP 5.6.xx and Nginx server on an Apline Linux server. I want to hide ‘X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.32’ or ‘x-powered-by: PHP/7.3.6’ HTTP header. How can I hide PHP version when using Nginx along with PHP-fpm5 or PHP-fpm7?

How to test PHP 7 and WordPress MySQL/MariaDB Database connectivity using a PHP script

last updated August 15, 2017 in Linux, MySQL, PHP, UNIX

I wanted to test if my PHP 7 and MySQL/MariaDB for WordPress are working. If not I wanted to see some error on screen or for my monitoring system. How to write a script for a quick PHP MySQL DB connection test for WordPress or any other database and send an email or text when site is down?

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