Install Magento in Centos 6

This will be simple guide for installing Magento in Centos 6

1. Install needed service

before that, add Epel repo first as we needed some package from there

# rpm -ivh http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

then now proceed with the installation 

# yum install httpd mysql mysql-server php php-xml php-mcrypt mcrypt gd php-gd php-mysql

then setup your mysql server accordingly 

you need to create a database and user

for reference on how to setup mysql, please refer to 

http://gab-tech.blogspot.com/2013/10/mysql-setup-for-centos-63-or-amazon.html

2. get the latest Magento and extract it at your web folder

try get the latest version from Magento

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/installing_magento_via_shell_ssh

# wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.9.0.1/magento-1.9.0.1.tar.gz

# tar-zxvf magento-1.9.0.1.tar.gz

3. start up your httpd and mysql services. Then at your browser go to <your ip>/magento and follow the wizard guide

during the wizard installation, you will reach a pages where it told you unable to write file into a list of dir.
just change those Dir to use 777 and file use 666 permission

Common error message and solution

PHP extension "dom" must be loaded. -> install php-xml

PHP extension "mcrypt" must be loaded. -> install php-mcrypt + mcrypt

PHP extension "gd" must be loaded. -> install php-gd

php extensions pdo_mysql must be loaded -> install php-mysql