LAMPP on Windows with Cygwin

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LAMP on Windows with Cygwin

You can run your "LAMP" server on Windows with all benefits of Linux command line.

Cygwin packages:

Download Cygwin and run setup. Choose this packages:

Web/httpd
Libs/libapr1-devel
Libs/libaprutil1-devel
PHP/httpd-mod_php7
PHP/php
Database/mysql
Database/mysql-server
PHP/php-fileinfo
PHP/php-mysqli
PHP/php-pdo_mysql
PHP/php-gd
PHP/php-Archive_Tar
PHP/php-bz2
PHP/php-zlib
PHP/php-json
PHP/php-ctype
PHP/php-exif
PHP/php-iconv
PHP/php-mbstring
PHP/php-curl
PHP/php-simplexml
PHP/php-xmlreader
PHP/php-xmlrpc
PHP/php-xmlwriter
PHP/php-zip
PHP/php-bcmath
Mail/exim
Mail/mutt
Editors/vim
Net/ncftp
Net/curl
Web/wget
Net/whois

...or you can run setup from command line with selected packages:

setup-x86_64.exe -P httpd -P libapr1-devel -P libaprutil1-devel -P httpd-mod_php7 -P php -P mysql -P mysql-server -P php-fileinfo -P php-mysqli -P php-pdo_mysql -P php-gd -P php-Archive_Tar -P php-bz2 -P php-zlib -P php-json -P php-ctype -P php-exif -P php-iconv -P php-mbstring -P php-curl -P php-simplexml -P php-xmlreader -P php-xmlrpc -P php-xmlwriter -P php-zip -P php-bcmath -P exim -P mutt -P vim -P ncftp -P curl -P wget -P whois 

Configuration:

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#42 Mutex posixsem (add)
#177 LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (uncomment)
#212 ServerAdmin yourname@localhost (edit)
#222 ServerName localhost (add)
#245 DocumentRoot DocumentRoot "/cygdrive/c/www/" (edit)
#246 <Directory "/cygdrive/c/www/"> (edit)
#266 AllowOverride All (edit)
    (All/None/AllowOverrideFileInfo/AuthConfig/Limit)
#297 ErrorLog "/cygdrive/c/www/error_log"
#326 CustomLog "/cygdrive/c/www/access_log" common

• #42 is line number in file, it is approximate value only for your orientation where you put or edit configurations
• This is configuration for C:\www\ server root folder

etc/php.ini

#586 error_log = "/cygdrive/c/www/php_error_log" (add)

Commands:

Run Apache server:

$ /usr/sbin/httpd -k start (restart/stop)

Run MySQL(MariaDB):

$ mysql_install_db (installation)

$ mysqld_safe & (run daemon)
$ mysqladmin -u root shutdown (shutdowm)

$ mysql_secure_installation (installation with setups)

E-mail

Close Cygwin and run it again as admin, then rum Exim config:

$ exim-config

Who is the local postmaser? [yourname]
Primary host: localhost
IPV6: no
Sendmail: yes
Daemon: no

E-mail queue:

$ mailq (show queue)
$ rm -fvr /var/spool/exim (clear queue)

/etc/exim.conf

Forward all outcoming e-mails from server to yourname@localhost, about #527 line after "begin routers":

catch_all_outgoing:
driver = redirect
data = yourname@localhost

Mutt - e-mail client

Creates /home/yourname/Mail at first start

When error configuration, you can run: mutt -n (runs Mutt without configuration)

Using server.sh

Next file in this gist is server.sh. You can use it for running your server. Run Cygwin and type bash server.sh ? for help.

Examples

Start Apache + MySQL server:

bash server.sh start

Restart only Apache server:

bash server.sh restart

Stop both server and kill all related proceses

bash server.sh kill

Show PHP error log fie

bash server.sh log php_err

php.exe in system variables

For running PHP scripts from Windows command line or editors or IDEs add C:\[cygwin64 folder]\bin\ to system PATH variables.

server.sh

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
    # Apache server ===================
    start)
            bash server.sh apache start
            bash server.sh mysql start
            exit
        ;;
    stop)
            bash server.sh apache stop
            bash server.sh mysql stop
            bash server.sh kill
            exit
        ;;
    # Apache server ===================
    apache)
        case "$2" in
            # start -------------------
            start)
                echo -e "\tStarting Apache..."
                /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
                exit
            ;;
            # stop -------------------
            stop)
                echo -e "\tShutting down Apache..."
                /usr/sbin/httpd -k stop
                exit
            ;;
            # restart -------------------
            restart)
                echo -e "\tRestarting Apache..."
                /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart
                exit
            ;;
            # kill -------------------
            kill)
                echo -e "\tKilling all httpd processes..."
                ps -W | grep httpd | grep -v grep | gawk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -f
                exit
            ;;
            # help -------------------- 
            *)
                echo "  >>> Enter second parameter: start/stop/restart/kill"
                exit
        esac
        ;;

        
    # MySQL database ==================
    mysql)
        case "$2" in
            start)
                    echo -e "\tStarting MySQL..."
                    mysqld_safe &
                exit
            ;;
            # stop -------------------
            stop)
                    echo -e "\tShutting down MySQL..."
                    mysqladmin -u root shutdown
                exit
            ;;
            # kill -------------------
            kill)
                echo -e "\tKilling all mysql processes..."
                ps -W | grep mysqld | grep -v grep | gawk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -f
                exit
            ;;
            # help -------------------- 
            *)
                echo "  >>> Enter second parameter: start/stop/kill"
                exit
        esac
        ;;

    # Kill ============================
    kill|exit|quit)
            bash server.sh apache kill
            bash server.sh mysql kill
            exit
        ;;

    # logs ============================
    log)
        case "$2" in
            # php error ---------------
            php_err)
                less /cygdrive/c/www/php_error_log
                exit
                ;;
            # apache error ------------
            err)
                less /cygdrive/c/www/error_log
                exit
                ;;
            # apache access -----------
            access)
                less /cygdrive/c/www/access_log
                exit
                ;;
           # clear logs ---------------
             clear)
                rm -f /cygdrive/c/www/php_error_log
                rm -f /cygdrive/c/www/error_log
                rm -f /cygdrive/c/www/access_log
                exit
                ;;
            # help -------------------- 
            *)
                echo "  >>> Enter second parameter: php_err/err/access/clear"
                exit
        esac
        ;;

    # help ============================
    help|?)
        echo ""
        echo "SERVER.SH"
        echo ""
        echo "    bash server.sh [PARAM1] [PARAM2]"
        echo "      start - start HTTP & MySQL server"
        echo "      stop - stop HTTP & MySQL server"
        echo "      apache - Apache HTTP server"
        echo "        start/stop/restart/kill"
        echo "      mysql - MySQL database"
        echo "        start/stop/kill"
        echo "      log - log files"
        echo "        php_err/err/access/clear"
        echo "      kill - kill all HTTP & MySQL processes"
        exit
        ;;
    
    *) # if no action found ===========
        echo " >>> Enter at least one parameter (\"help\" or \"?\" for help)"
esac