Sep 042015
Perform an update to ensure you’ve got the latest of everything in the base package.
yum update
Install wget so you can download a few things.
yum install wget
Allow yum to locate/install redis, per this page here.
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm"
Now, install all the prerequisites
yum install tar make automake gcc gcc-c++ git net-tools libcurl-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel tcl redis ImageMagick npm mysql-server mysql-devel nginx libyaml libyaml-devel patch readline-devel libtool bison
Enable and start MySQL
chkconfig --level 3 mysqld on service mysqld start
Secure your MySQL installation by setting a password. replace ‘new-password’ with your secure password.
mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' mysqladmin -u root -h YourHost.YourDomain.com password 'new-password'
Open up the necessary firewall ports
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables copy this line. -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT and add two more with port 80 & 443 as well -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
Restart the firewall
service iptables restart