Installing Apache and PHP on Fedora/CentOS Systems

Before we begin this tutorial, we first note that newer Fedora releases have now adopted dnf (Dandified Yum) as the default package manager in place of yum.

1) Install the Apache HTTP Server

Login as root 

					
						su -

We first fetch the system's packages and update them to their newer versions 

					
						dnf update

In Fedora/CentOS systems, the Apache web server can be installed by typing the below command at the terminal 

					
						dnf install httpd

Check the version number to verify if it is installed properly 

					
						httpd -v
php httpd version

2) Start Apache

The Apache web server can be started by typing the below command into the terminal 

					
						service httpd start
php service httpd start

But as we see the redirect to /bin/systemctl, we can also start by running 

					
						systemctl start httpd

After starting the server, type http://localhost in the URL bar of your web browser. It should display the Apache Test Page on Fedora shown below

php test page in fedora
Fedora Test Page

The command for restarting Apache is similar to starting it. Just run the command 

					
						systemctl restart httpd

and for stopping, run 

					
						systemctl stop httpd

3) Install PHP

To install PHP, we run the command 

					
						dnf install php

We also install the php-common package, which contains files used by both the php and the php-cli packages. 

					
						dnf install php-common

Verify the installation by checking the PHP version 

					
						php -v