Install LAMP, FTP and PhpMyAdmin on your Onion Omega

Boken Lin

@Kit-Bishop I think you should change:

config 'mount'
        option  target  '/mnt/sda1'
        option  uuid    'cad99fb9-c045-467a-b629-3acd4c170ae3'
        option  enabled '1'

from /etc/config/fstab to:

config 'mount'
        option  target  '/overlay'
        option  uuid    'cad99fb9-c045-467a-b629-3acd4c170ae3'
        option  enabled '1'

Josip Mlakar

@Boken-Lin cool

Kit Bishop

@Boken-Lin Thanks - had just figured out that something like that was needed - having a slow brain day today
That works!
Perhaps this should be made clearer on the bit on editing /etc/config/fstab in the WiKi page at https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage-as-Rootfs

Boken Lin

@Kit-Bishop Done!

Kit Bishop

@Boken-Lin Cool That was quick. Thanks for your help

Chris MacKay

@Boken-Lin ,

While adapting @Josip-Mlakar 's guide to the Wiki, this step was missed.

Seems simple enough of a step, but it is assumed the drive is formatted as ext4 in further steps.

Thanks for both of yours' work!

@Josip-Mlakar said:

To do that you will have to format your USB storage into ext4 filesystem. You can do this by following commands:

opkg update
opkg install e2fsprogs
mkfs.ext4 /dev/<your partition>

Boken Lin

@Chris-MacKay I think I mentioned that somewhere in the prerequisite section.

Danny van der Sluijs

@Josip-Mlakar Great tutorial works like a charm. It only seems that apache isn't autostarting after a boot. Any ways you have solved that one?

Josip Mlakar

@Danny-van-der-Sluijs well I tried to make file named apache in /etc/init.d with content:

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=95
start() {
	apachectl start
}
restart() {
	apachectl restart
}
stop() {
	apachectl stop
}

made it executable with chmod +x /etc/init.d/apache
and then executed /etc/init.d/apache enable. It gets enabled and I can start it with /etc/init.d/apache startbut script doesen't start on boot I'll keep You updated if I find the solution:)

Kit Bishop

@Josip-Mlakar Unless I am much mistaken (I'm sure others will correct me if I am :-)) what you need is:

A symlink in /etc/rc.d named S95apache that references your /etc/init.d/apache file
Files named like S<nn>Xxxx in /etc/rc.d are executed in order of the <nn> at system boot time as S<nn>Xxxx start thus starting the referenced file
Files named like K<nn>Xxxx in /etc/rc.d are executed in order of the <nn> at system shutdown time as K<nn>Xxxx stop thus stopping the referenced file

One small thing I would check though is your use of START=95 (and corresponding usage of 95 in S95apache and K95apache) - as far as I can see 95 is currently being used by /etc/init.d/done and /etc/rc.d/S95done and I am unsure about the effects of resuing the same number.

Josip Mlakar

@Kit-Bishop Thank You for Your help, but /etc/init.d/apache enable creates symlink automatically. I also tried manual as you stated, but still no luck. Also tried to change START=95 into all kinds of numbers, but nothing works

Kit Bishop

@Josip-Mlakar Sorry that didn't help - though I didn't see anything in the /etc/init.d/apache file you posted for handling enable or setting up any symlinks.

Just for the record, after some quick testing, i can confirm that the symlinks in /etc/rc.d do work as I expected and also that the START value (and the <nn> values) can be reused - I created a test file in /etc/init.d with START=95 and set up the S95 and K95 links which duplicate the 95 used by /etc/init.d/done and all worked fine,

Boken Lin

@Danny-van-der-Sluijs I think that's because you have not set Apache server to start automatically on boot. Can you try this:

Create a file /etc/init.d/apache, add the following content:

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common

START=12

USE_PROCD=1
NAME=apache
PROG=/usr/sbin/apachectl

start_service() {
        procd_open_instance
        procd_set_param command "$PROG" start
        procd_close_instance
}

stop() {
        /usr/sbin/apachectl stop
}

reload() {
        /usr/sbin/apachectl reload
}

Make the file executable:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/apache

Reboot again.

Please let me know if this works

Josip Mlakar

Ok i found what's wrong. Since PhpMyAdmin uses mysql, apache fails to starts before mysql is up. So very very very (did I say very? :D) dirty way to fix this is to add sleep 5 in start() function... Better way would be somthing like while (mysql not running) {wait} but I cant find a way to check mysql status. if I find a way I'll update this comment.
Anyways @Danny-van-der-Sluijs current solution is:
Make file named apache in /etc/init.d with content:

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=95
start() {
    sleep 5
    apachectl start
}
restart() {
    apachectl restart
}
stop() {
    apachectl stop
}

Make it executable with chmod +x /etc/init.d/apache and then execute /etc/init.d/apache enable. Ofcourse don't forget to enable mysql to start on boot, you can do that with a command /etc/init.d/mysqld enable.

@Kit-Bishop You don't need to manualy handle enable to set up symlink (as stated here in Enable and disable section).

Milan Vuckovic

Hi, I followed your tutorial. But after setting up phpmyadmin I'm getting this error:

Screen Shot 2015-12-06 at 22.33.04.png

Boken Lin

Hi @Milan-Vuckovic, according to this post: https://community.onion.io/topic/220/lamp-stack-rights-management-issues, you can try reinstalling apache a couple times to see if it fixes the issue.

Cheers.

Milan Vuckovic

What should I use for server name in httpd.conf ?

Josip Mlakar

@Milan-Vuckovic wathever You want (example: www.example.com, www.my-page.com ...)

Collin S

@Milan-Vuckovic I'm having the same problem as well. I've tried reinstalling apache with no luck. (opkg install apache --force-reinstall). Any help would be appreciated.

Milan Vuckovic

Try this. I changed some of the settings and it worked.