Launch the instance and connect with ssh.
##Update the server
```
sudo yum update
```
##Install php and MySQL packages
```
sudo yum install https mod_ssl mysql mysql-server php php-mysql php-xml
```
##Install phpMyAdmin
Get the RPMforge repo (32-bit, for 64-bit use http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm)
```
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
```
Install
```
sudo yum install phpmyadmin
```
##Start MySQL service
```
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/
sudo ./mysqld start
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation //follow instructions
```
##Setup startup scripts for apache and MySQL
```
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
sudo rm K15httpd
sudo rm K36mysqld
sudo ln -s ../init.d/mysqld S30mysql
sudo ln -s ../init.d/httpd S85httpd
```
##Setup phpMyAdmin
Allow access from external IP's
```
sudo chmod 0700 /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
```
```
# Web application to manage MySQL
# #
# Order Deny,Allow
# Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /mysqladmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
```
Set blowfish_secret to make it work with cookie auth
```
sudo chmod 0700 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
sudo nano /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
```
```
...
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'put-a-magic-string-here'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
...
```
```
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
```
##Make mod_rewrite (.htaccess) work in subdirectories
```
cd /etc/httpd/conf
sudo nano httpd.conf
```
Find `<Directory "/var/www/html">`
Replace `AllowOverride none` with `AllowOverride all`
(optional if apache is running already, restart it)
```
sudo service httpd restart
```
##Start apache
```
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
```
##Sources
* [Build an Amazon EC2 LAMP Server](http://bogomip.net/blog/build-an-amazon-ec2-lamp-server/)
* [Create LAMP (PHP, MySQL, Apache2) On CentOS in Amazon AMI](http://pitchpublish.com/blog/?p=20)