Read here: LAMP (software bundle) about the concept. This guide provides step by step instructions for installing a full featured LAMP stack on OpenWrt.

Modify your /etc/hosts file to resemble the following example. Replace "domain.tld" with your own domain name, and select a unique name to replace "llmp" with. This will be your system's FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name).

To get such a /etc/hosts file from a standard OpenWrt hosts file you can run the one liner below:

echo "$(uci get network.lan.ipaddr) llmp.domain.tld llmp" >> /etc/hosts

Your /etc/hosts file should look like this then:

File: /etc/hosts

Issue the following commands to set your system's hostname, replacing "OpenWrt" with the hostname you picked above.

uci set system.@system[0].hostname=OpenWrt-LLMP
uci commit system
echo "$(uci get system.@system[0].hostname)" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

You might already have a web server for the Web UI installed and running. Choose any of the available WebServer for this purpose: http.overview. If the web server is not in the OpenWrt packet repository, you could always crosscompile it from source.

→ http.uhttpd is an in-house web server under BSD-license. LuCI WebUI already uses this. If uHTTPd is not already installed you can install it with:

opkg update
opkg install uhttpd

The default image runs a WebUI for OpenWrt on port 80 (HTTP) and port 443 (HTTPS). For our PHP5 enabled uHTTPd web server we start a new uHTTPd instance on a different port. We use port 81 here.

uci set uhttpd.llmp=uhttpd
uci set uhttpd.llmp.listen_http=81
uci set uhttpd.llmp.home=/srv/www
uci commit uhttpd

Create a directory for our web server content

mkdir -p $(uci get uhttpd.llmp.home)

If uHTTPd was already installed and running restart it now with

/etc/init.d/uhttpd restart

If you installed uHTTPd via opkg start the web server manually and also at boot by enabling the init script

/etc/init.d/uhttpd start
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable

Further configuration can also be performed manually, e.g. to enable php. http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/uhttpd

→ http.lighttpd is a lightweight and very flexible web server with lots of additional modules available.

opkg update
opkg install lighttpd lighttpd-mod-cgi

Edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and change a few settings:

OLD:

NEW:

OLD:

NEW:

OLD:

NEW:

(End of changes to /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf)

Edit /etc/php.ini and change:

OLD:

NEW:

(End of changes to /etc/php.ini)

Create a directory for our web server content

mkdir -p /srv/www

Start the server manually and also at boot by enabling the init script

/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
/etc/init.d/lighttpd enable

→ http.nginx is nice as well.

→ http.apache is nice as well.

Create a little test web page, e.g. /srv/www/index.html:

echo "<P>Hello, this web server runs on OpenWrt!!</P>" > /srv/www/index.html

Point your browser to the routers IP address and the port the web server is listening on (e. g. http://192.168.1.1:81/index.html)

See →PHP to install a version of PHP.

php

uci add_list uhttpd.llmp.interpreter=".php=/usr/bin/php-cgi"
uci set uhttpd.llmp.index_page="index.html index.htm default.html default.htm index.php"
uci commit uhttpd

sed -i 's,doc_root.*,doc_root = "",g' /etc/php.ini

sed -i 's,;short_open_tag = Off,short_open_tag = On,g' /etc/php.ini

Restart uHTTPd now with

/etc/init.d/uhttpd restart

Further configuration can also be performed manually, e.g. to enable php. http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/uhttpd

php

In /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf change

Right after

add

Change

to

And in /etc/php.ini change

to

ps: If you are making some crazy URL rewriting in lighttpd and getting a 'No input file specified.' error in the browser, remove this configuration (as per lighttpd FAQ)

Restart lighttpd

/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Configuring Apache and PHP5

php

We are using the phpinfo() function for a first test.

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /srv/www/index.php

Point your browser to the routers IP address and the port the web server is listening on (e. g. http://192.168.1.1:81/index.php)

If you get a blank page you can run your script with php-cgi from the router's shell to see if there are any errors

php-cgi /srv/www/index.php

database.overview

database.mysql

opkg update
opkg install libpthread libncurses libreadline mysql-server

sed -i 's,^datadir.*,datadir         = "/srv/mysql",g' /etc/my.cnf
sed -i 's,^tmpdir.*,tmpdir          = "/tmp",g' /etc/my.cnf

mkdir -p /srv/mysql
mysql_install_db --force

/etc/init.d/mysqld start
/etc/init.d/mysqld enable

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

To enable MySQL in PHP install

opkg update
opkg install php5-mod-mysql

and load the mysql.so module in /etc/php.ini

sed -i 's,;extension=mysql.so,extension=mysql.so,g' /etc/php.ini

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=145009#p145009

To use the MySQLi module in PHP install

opkg update
opkg install php5-mod-mysqli

and load the mysqli.so module in /etc/php.ini

sed -i 's,;extension=mysqli.so,extension=mysqli.so,g' /etc/php.ini

Besides, in /etc/php.ini, duplicate the block named [MySQL] to [MySQLi] and rename all "mysql."-options to "mysqli.". To access a local MySQL server via socket, modify the value of "mysqli.default_socket" (which can be found in /etc/my.cnf):

mysqli.default_socket = /var/run/mysqld.sock

For MySQL to work with PHP, you must also configure the php.ini (vi /etc/php.ini) file, under the [MySQL] section.

• Here is an example:

[MySQL]
mysql.allow_local_infile = On
mysql.allow_persistent = On
mysql.cache_size = 2000
mysql.max_persistent = -1
mysql.max_links = -1
mysql.default_port = 3306
mysql.default_socket = /tmp/run/mysqld.sock
mysql.default_host = 127.0.0.1
mysql.default_user = root
mysql.default_password = MySuperSecretPassword
mysql.connect_timeout = 60
mysql.trace_mode = Off

database.postgresql