Preface
Goal: Setting-up LAMP stack with Artix OpenRC. Configure the Apache + PHP tier.
Install Apache Packages
Just like any other service in OpenRC, we need both packages, and the init package.
- apache
- apache-openrc
❯ sudo pacman -S apache apache-openrc
warning: apache-2.4.56-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (2) apache-2.4.56-1
apache-openrc-20210505-2
Total Installed Size: 6.47 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.01 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring
(2/2) checking package integrity
(2/2) loading package files
(2/2) checking for file conflicts
(2/2) checking available disk space 
As usual, pay attention to the message below:
:: Processing package changes...
(1/2) reinstalling apache
(2/2) installing apache-openrc
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Creating temporary files...
(2/2) Displaying openrc service help ...
==> Add a service to runlevel:
rc-update add <service> <runlevel>
==> Start/stop/restart a service:
rc-service <service> <start/stop/restart>
Running Service
For OpenRC we have this two commands:
- rc-update,
- rc-service
❯ sudo rc-update add httpd default
* service httpd added to runlevel default
❯ sudo rc-service httpd status
* status: stopped
❯ sudo rc-service httpd start
httpd | * Starting httpd ... [ ok ]
❯ sudo rc-service httpd status
* status: crashed
Woat? It crashed.
CURL
Strange, that it works, even though the init say it crashed. And I still don’t know why.
❯ curl http://localhost
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Index of /</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Index of /</h1>
<table>
<tr><th valign="top"><img src="/icons/blank.gif" alt="[ICO]"></th><th><a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</a></th><th><a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a></th><th><a href="?C=S;O=A">Size</a></th><th><a href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a></th></tr>
<tr><th colspan="5"><hr></th></tr>
<tr><th colspan="5"><hr></th></tr>
</table>
</body></html>
~ 
You can also pipe the output to vim as
curl http://localhost | vim -R -.
Configure HTTPD
You might have a situation where you find this server’s fully qualified domain name error.
❯ sudo rc-service httpd start
httpd | * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
httpd | * Starting httpd ...
httpd |AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
httpd |httpd (pid 5849) already running We just need to add Servername in confgiuration.
# epsi!
ServerName localhost
Browser
How I would I know that Apache works in localhost?
Consider have a look at how the web server response goes in browser.
This web server works well.
What is Next 🤔?
We can contiune our tier to PHP.
Consider continue reading [ LAMP - PHP Setup ].
Thank you for reading.