Installing Bitnami LAMP Apache Instance

The Bitnami stack comes with both Apache and MySQL, but initially you don't necessarily need the private MySQL instance. In this case, you need only one reserved port (for Apache), and don't need to run MySQL - but the binaries still exist if you need it later.

Therefore, you'll first need to create one Custom Application (listening on port) - take a note of the assigned port. Create a directory or empty application to hold your actual application code (this example will use a "$HOME/webapps/app1").

Then, set these environment variables and run the following script:

APACHE_PORT=77777
LAMP_PREFIX="$HOME/lamp"
WEBAPP_DIR="$HOME/webapps/app1"

mkdir -p $HOME/src
cd $HOME/src
wget 'https://bitnami.com/redirect/to/73070/bitnami-lampstack-5.5.30-0-linux-x64-installer.run'
chmod 755 bitnami-lampstack-5.5.30-0-linux-x64-installer.run

cat << EOF > 'wf_config'
prefix=__HOME__
base_user=__USERNAME__
base_password=__RANDPASS1__
apache_server_port=__APACHE_PORT__
apache_server_ssl_port=__APACHE_PORT__
web_server_domain=127.0.0.1
mysql_port=__APACHE_PORT__
mysql_password=__RANDPASS2__
mysql_database_name=mysql_db
mysql_database_username=mysql_user
mysql_database_password=__RANDPASS3__
phpmyadmin_password=__RANDPASS4__
EOF

function genpasswd() {
  local l=""
  [ -n "${1+x}" ] && l=$1
  [ "$l" == "" ] && l=12
  tr -dc ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789 < /dev/urandom 2> /dev/null | head -c $l | xargs
}

sed -i "s^__HOME__^$LAMP_PREFIX^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__USERNAME__^$USER^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__RANDPASS1__^$(genpasswd)^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__RANDPASS2__^$(genpasswd)^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__RANDPASS3__^$(genpasswd)^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__RANDPASS4__^$(genpasswd)^g" wf_config
sed -i "s^__APACHE_PORT__^$APACHE_PORT^g" wf_config

./bitnami-lampstack-5.5.30-0-linux-x64-installer.run --mode unattended --optionfile wf_config
$LAMP_PREFIX/ctlscript.sh stop &> /dev/null

cat << EOF >> "$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"
<VirtualHost _default_:__APACHE_PORT__>
  DocumentRoot "__WEBAPP_DIR__"
  <Directory "__WEBAPP_DIR__">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
EOF

sed -i "s^LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so^#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so^" "$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"
sed -i "s^Include \"${LAMP_PREFIX}/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf\"^#Include \"${LAMP_PREFIX}/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf\"^" "$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"
sed -i "s^__APACHE_PORT__^$APACHE_PORT^g" "$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"
sed -i "s^__WEBAPP_DIR__^$WEBAPP_DIR^g" "$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"

$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh start

The above sets the Apache and MySQL ports to the same value (this way, you're not trying to use a non-reserved port), but only starts Apache, so it doesn't matter. That is, we assume you'll use the server-wide shared MySQL instance instead. If you want to use the included private MySQL, then create another Custom Application (listening on port) application to reserve another port and then configure mysql to use that port instead.

This command starts Apache:

LAMP_PREFIX="$HOME/lamp"
$LAMP_PREFIX/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh start

You could then extract the application into the configured WEBAPP_DIR and serve it. You could also have used one of the other Application-specific Bitnami stacks to install the application code within the stack -- either approach is fine.

A final note is that we've explicitly disabled the mod_ssl functionality as part of the configuration. This is because your stack runs behind the server's front-end Nginx server and Nginx handles HTTPS encryption and decryption. More information is available in the documentation here.

Hope that helps!