LAMP server with FFmpeg-PHP on Debian 6

The following procedure will install a LAMP server with FFmpeg support for PHP on a Debian 6 machine

Install FFmpeg package

apt-get install ffmpeg

Install flvtool and yamdi

apt-get install flvtool2 yamdi

Install Mysql and other related packages needed

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

Enter the root password when needed and confirm it.
Install Apache and other related packages

apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert

Install PHP and related packages

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-ruby libapache2-mod-python php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-ffmpeg php5-json php5-ps

Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Enable apache modules

a2enmod ssl

a2enmod rewrite

a2enmod include

Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install FTP server

apt-get install proftpd ucf

During installation select “from inetd”.

apt-get install phpmyadmin

During installation select only apache2 and choose yes in next step. Enter the database administrator’s password and then create phpmyadmin’s password and confirm it.

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file so that it looks like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride all
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

 

Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install Alpine

apt-get install alpine

Test Alpine installation

alpine

Exit Alpine using quit

Install Ruby,Perl and other related packages

apt-get install ruby ri rdoc libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 libhtml-template-perl

Create soft links to executables

ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem

ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby

ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc

ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri

ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb

Install Rubygems

apt-get install rubygems1.8

Install Rails

gem install rails

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file so that it looks like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride all
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart