How to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP on FreeBSD

# cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl
# make install
# echo 'apache_enable ="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo 'apache_flags ="-DSSL"' >> /etc/rc.conf
# echo 'mysql_enable ="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
# mysqladmin -u root password newpassword
# cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php4
# make install clean
# cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
# make install clean
# vi /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
AddType application/x- httpd-php . php
AddType application/x- httpd-php-source . phps
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start


# whoami
root
# cd ~
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
# openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr 
# openssl x509 -req -days 365 \
     -in /root/server.csr \
     -signkey /root/server.key \
     -out /root/server.crt
# cp ~/ ./server.key /usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.key/
# cp ~/ ./server.crt /usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.crt/

 

How to use Ports

If you want to add packages to FreeBSD or OpenBSD (others?), you'll want to use the package collection called 'ports'.

# mkdir /usr/ports && cd /usr/ports
# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract

This creates the directory heirarchy under /usr/ports and downloads the header files among other files for each package. When installing new packages, after the ports collection has been created on a given system, execute the following command to update the collection.

# portsnap fetch update

for more information, go here.