local LAMP server

[Aardvark Freak]

i want to set up apache, mysql, and php locally on my computer to test out php scripts. i want it to be secure and i don't want anyone else to be able to access it. how would i go about doing that?

[ewdi]

install them and use firewall to block port 80 (apache) :p
use apachetoolbox.com to compile a LAMP

[xluther]

Things to do:

1. Make sure the servers (Apache, MySQL) are ONLY listening to localhost
2. edit /etc/hosts.deny and add this "ALL: ALL EXCEPT LOCAL"
this will deny access to ALL services except when being access from
localhost.
3. (optional) edit /etc/security/access.conf
4. setup your firewall
5. make sure the servers are up to date.

[superbnerd]

no need to compile lamp, unless you want the optimize it (not advisible it you are new to LAMP and are just testing). just install the neccessary components via yum.

[triplehead]

i have local test platform (FC2) for php and other testing purposes. I made second ip for eth0 (eth0:1) as 10.0.0.1. On apache htppd.conf file i set apache to listen only ip 10.0.0.1 on port 80 (10.0.0.1:80). I have several domain names so i set NameVirtualHost to point to 10.0.0.1:80 and created namebased virtual domains same way as i have on public server. It is helpful to have local "clone" of the public server. This setup works for me :D

[kosmosik]

just run it on localhost only (only on local NIC)... in httpd.conf add: "Listen 127.0.0.1:80" and that is it... it will be only accessible at http://localhost/

[Aardvark Freak]

thanks for all the tips. i went with the normal fedora rpms for apache and mysql, and compiled php5 from source because there were no rpms (that i could find). then i used kosmosik's method of restricting access. everything seems to work fine.