Tutorial for setting up the LAMP stack on a NixOS server?

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Not many people use the LAMP stack on NixOS. We don’t have many apache fans here, most people use nginx. Anyways, here is the most basic LAMP setup you can get up and running with on NixOS:

{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
{
  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 443 ];

  services.httpd.enable = true;
  services.httpd.adminAddr = "webmaster@example.org";
  services.httpd.enablePHP = true; # oof... not a great idea in my opinion

  services.httpd.virtualHosts."example.org" = {
    documentRoot = "/var/www/example.org";
    # want ssl + a let's encrypt certificate? add `forceSSL = true;` right here
  };

  services.mysql.enable = true;
  services.mysql.package = pkgs.mariadb;

  # hacky way to create our directory structure and index page... don't actually use this
  systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
    "d /var/www/example.org"
    "f /var/www/example.org/index.php - - - - <?php phpinfo();"
  ];
}

You’ll want to take a quick glance at this guide if you want free ssl certificates.

Your question is broad and general, so feel free to ask specific questions. I do a ton of LAMP sysadmin work on NixOS, so hopefully I’ll have an answer for you.

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