Goal: Create Centos 7 box for web hosting  ( LAMP stack / monitoring software code versioning software ) that will be easy to install , maintainable in time , easy to add functionality .

 

First things first: install the centos 7 minimal.

After instalation:

update OS

yum update
yum upgrade

generic tools

yum install perl perl-core ntpl nmap sudo libidn gmp libaio libstdc++ unzip sysstat sqlite net-tools mc bind-utils telnet

Remove iptables wrapper and install plain iptables service

yum remove firewalld

yum install iptables-services

Adding more useful software repositories

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum install https://www.percona.com/redir/downloads/percona-release/redhat/latest/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

Installing php 5.6

yum –enablerepo=remi-php56 install php php-gd php-mysql php-mcrypt

Installing mysql DB and backup tools

yum install Percona-Server-server-57 percona-xtrabackup

git

For Centos 7 we didn’t find (yet) a decent software repository for GIT 2.7 . Most probably we will make one and try to maintain it.  ( will be covered in another article )

Monitoring

yum install collectd collectd-apache