How to Install Cherokee with PHP5 And MySQL Support on Ubuntu 12.04

Instructions

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  Installing MySQL 5
  
  First of all install MySQL 5 through the given procedure;
  
  apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
  
  You have to type a password for the MySQL root user. You can either use root@localhost or root@server1.example.com and this is applicable for both the users.
  
  New password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
  Repeat password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
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  Installing Cherokee
  
  Cherokee can be found as an Ubuntu package, so you can install it in this way;
  
  apt-get install Cherokee
  
  Now type  http://192.168.0.100 on your browser, and you could view the Cherokee placeholder page;
  
  

  
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  In order to configure Cherokee, you can use a web-based control panel which can be done as;
  
  cherokee-admin –b
  
  
  
  Output should be look like this;
  
  root@server1:~# cherokee-admin -b
  [29/05/2012 13:46:44.778] (warning) rrd_tools.c:121 - Could not find the
  rrdtool binary. | A custom rrdtool binary has not been defined, and the
  server could not find one in the $PATH.
  
  Cherokee Web Server 1.2.101 (Jan 30 2012): Listening on port ALL:9090, TLS
  disabled, IPv6 enabled, using epoll, 4096 fds system limit, max. 2041
  connections, caching I/O, single thread
  
  Login:
  User:              admin
  One-time Password: YXiRcc6wcAnwcUo5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Web Interface:
  URL:               http://localhost:9090/
  
  In order to log into the web interface, you will be asked to provide the username and password which can be found on http://192.168.0.100:9090/:
  
  

  
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  This is how the web interface looks:
  
  

  
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  Installing PHP5
  
  You can use PHP5 in Cherokee with the help of FastCGI. Since, Ubuntu offers a FastCGI-enabled PHP5, so you can install it in this way;
  
  apt-get install php5-cgi
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  Configuring PHP5
  
  You have to modify /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini and uncomment the line cgi.fix_pathinfo=1:
  
  vi /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
  
  [...]
  
  ; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI.  PHP's
  
  ; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok
  
  ; what PATH_INFO is.  For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs.  Setting
  
  ; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix its paths to conform to the spec.  A setting
  
  ; of zero causes PHP to behave as before.  Default is 1.  You should fix your scripts
  
  ; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.
  
  ; http://php.net/cgi.fix-pathinfo
  
  cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
  
  [...]
  
  After that restart Cherokee:
  
  /etc/init.d/cherokee restart