[apache][Archlinux] Setting up php for apache

1. Install php
pacman -S php php-apache

2. Edit apache configuration file
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
The result like following script

# LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so 
LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so 

3. Add following script into apache configuration file

# /lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so
# /etc/httpd/conf/extra/php7_module.conf

LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so 
Include conf/extra/php7_module.conf 

4. Restart apache
systemctl restart httpd

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MySQL/MariaDB
1. Install MariaDB (compatible with Mysql)

sudo pacman -Syu mariadb mariadb-clients libmariadbclient

2. Install the MariaDB data directory:

sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql

3. Start MySQL and set it to run at boot:

sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service

4. Uncomment at least one of the following lines in /etc/php/php.ini:

extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so

5. Restart httpd
systemctl restart httpd

Reference:

• Apache HTTP Server
• systemd
• MySQL/MariaDB settings for php
• Apache HTTP Server
• LAMP Server on Arch Linux
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Q:

[freeman@localhost freeman]$ systemctl status httpd

● httpd.service - Apache Web Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-01-27 15:21:03 CST; 15s ago
  Process: 15380 ExecStop=/usr/bin/httpd -k graceful-stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 15377 ExecStart=/usr/bin/httpd -k start -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 15377 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[freeman@localhost freeman]$ httpd -k start -DFOREGROUND
httpd: Syntax error on line 538 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load modules/libphp5.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A:
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

From:
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf

To :
LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so
Include conf/extra/php7_module.conf

Reference:

• libphp5.so upgraded to libphp7.so