A workshop aimed at developers working on LAMP projects.

1. Meraj Rasool Khattak
Technical Lead
GoodCore Software Inc.

2. 1. Open Source
2. History

3. UNIX – 1969
Open Source
GNU (GNU is not UNIX) - 1985
GPL License(s)
Other Public License(s)

4.  1991
 Linus Torvalds
 Linux is a kernel
 Rest software comes from other different
organizations e.g. Apache, Gnome, GNU etc.

5. 1. Software Management
2. Utilities

6.  Yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified)
 Apt (Advanced Package Tool)

7.  Shell
 Tail
 Grep
 Ps
 Vim
 IPTables
 Samba

8. 1. Linux
2. Apache
3. MySQL
4. PHP / PERL / PYTHON

9.  We already discussed this.

10.  Apache Foundation
 Apache Configuration
 Virtual Hosts
 Rewrite Rules
 .htaccess

11.  The most popular and used open source
database.
 Started as a separate project.
 Acquired first by Sun and now part of Oracle.
 Transaction Support.
 Stored Procedures.

12.  PHP
 Extension(s) – Installation, Compilation,
Configueration
 PECL
 PEAR
 Frameworks – Zend, Yii, Symphony,
Codeigniter

13. 1. File System
2. Configuration

14.  Root / main directory
 How these directories are working?
 /home, /boot, /lib, /bin, /etc, /var, /dev etc.

15.  In Linux – Everything is a file.
 /etc – is our directory where most of our
configuration files live.

16. 1. Help

17.  READ – more and more.
 Take help from Man / Google
 Try to get help as much as possible from
reading logs e.g. /var/log/
 Try to understand the problem from logs.
 Some examples:
 Make sure process is running.
 Make sure process is listening on the
expected port.

18.  Make sure required port is not occupied.
 Make sure process has required permission
for writing / executing.

19.  Audience questions.