
OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) is one of the fastest web servers available in the market today. Here, we’ll show you how to install OLS from its repository in Centos7.6, configure PHP and make OLS use port 80 by default.
1. Add the OLS repository to your computer
[[email protected]
~]$ sudo rpm -ivh
http://rpms.litespeedtech.com/centos/litespeed-repo-1.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm
2. Install OLS
[[email protected]
~]$ sudo yum install openlitespeed
By default, OLS is installed under /usr/local/lsws
You
can then start
OLS
by
running
either of the commands below
[[email protected]
~]$ sudo /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl start
or
[[email protected]
~]$ sudo
systemctl
start lsws
3.
Add needed repositories for PHP
For
EPEL, run:
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo yum install epel-release
For OLS repo, run
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh http://rpms.litespeedtech.com/centos/litespeed-repo-1.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm
4. Now install PHP. The command below installs php 7.3.
Y
ou can replace the numbers 73 with any other
version
you want, e.g. 72 for php7.2 etc
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo
yum install lsphp73 lsphp73-common lsphp73-mysql lsphp73-gd lsphp73-process lsphp73-mbstring lsphp73-xml lsphp73-mcrypt lsphp73-pdo lsphp73-imap lsphp73-soap lsphp73-bcmath
If you want to install various versions of
PHP
, you can use the command below:
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo yum groupinstall lsphp-all
Now,
you are all set to run a PHP based application on OLS. By default,
OLS uses port 8088 for http traffic. For the web admin interface, it
uses port 7080. We will leave the web admin interface intact and
change the http port to the default port 80 everyone is used to. To
do this, follow the steps below.
5. On your browser, login to the web admin. If your are your local machine, use https://localhost:7080 then login using username admin and password as 123456. If you are using a server with a public ip, use https://[IP_ADDRESS]:7080

6.
On your left pane, navigate to
Listeners
.
Under
Summary
tab, click on the
View
button (the one that looks like a magnifying glass).
7.
Under
General
tab, click the
Edit
icon on your top right.
8. Change the Port from 8088 to 80 then click the Save icon.
