Building a LNMP (LAMP) Stack!

Time To do: 30/1hr mins

Instead of a lamp stack it’ll be a LNMP stack (replacing Apache with Nginx, and mysql with mariaDb)

Run sudo apt-get install nginx
Go to the IP Address of your raspberry Pi (on your browser) and you should see a welcome to nginx page!

Step 2: Install PHP

sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

You can check if PHP is installed by running php -v

Once you’ve done that you should then do this:

Go to sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

And then change your config file to look like this:

Once changed, exit out of nano (ctrl-x and then y for yes to saving the changes)

Then run nginx -t Once ran you should see a message saying that the configuration test is successful

After that run sudo service nginx reload

Go to where you created the PHP file and see if it loads!

That should be PHP setup!

To test your php is working you can write this

and then when you go to view it on your raspberry Pi web server you should have information appearing like so:

This means you’ve setup PHP correctly!

Now to setup MySQL (Last part of the LANP stack!)

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server-10.0

This installs mariadb

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Press continue then y and type your password press y three times and then y to reload prviilleges

This setups a password for the root user so we can use mariadb

To login run sudo mysql

Then you should be in your MariaDB client, to check a database exists run show databases;

ctrl + c to break out of mariaDB client and back into your terminal

Adding to the LAMP Stack (making websites, what we’re here for!)

(explain how they can with filezilla and use that as a way to transfer files across).

And you should now have your LMNP stack working, here’s a short breakdown of what you can do with it! Enjoy!