Using OpenWrt as Wordpress server

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I'd like to use a Netgear-R7900 as a Wordpress webserver (with MySQL running on a different machine). This requires Apache, PHP and MySQL-client. I've built an image with 18.06, but the Apache crashes (segfaults), and PHP doesn't seem to be integrated.

I also built a native compiler and then tried to build everything on the router itself, which sort of works, but all of the build-tree-built libraries don't seem to have symbols, so I end up having to build ALL of the foundation libraries too (and there are a lot of them!)

So far, I haven't been able to get the whole Apache/PHP/MySQL stack built and running, and it takes the better part of a couple of days to get through all the builds.

Is there a trick to getting the cross-compiler-built libraries (and include files!) onto the router so they can be used with locally-compiled code? Or some other trick to getting LAMP running under OpenWrt?

Thanks!

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Don't forget, openwrt is a operating system designed for routers and not for webservers.

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I would use a raspberry pi for that.

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if you look at the issues on github, this is known, use lighttpd or nginx, they work with php like a charm (TM)

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I can confirm - tested some times ago with PHP7, nginx and postgres (IMHO on OpenWRT it runs better than MySQL).

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I've got an R7900, though, and no RasPi. (I can't use the R7900 as a WiFi router because of the poor Broadcom wireless support, but the ethernets work OK, and I'd like to replace a different multi-homed web server where one of the interfaces is somewhat unreliable WiFi. So a dual-ethernet R7900 running Apache would be just the ticket!)

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Thanks...I ended up trying to compile everything one last time, and I got it to work (Apache, PHP7, PHP's native MySQL driver). It's able to run Wordpress against a MySQL database running elsewhere.

I don't understand the OpenWrt cross-compile environment well enough to investigate why that Apache doesn't work, but in case anybody runs across this post, I can say that it is possible to compile a working LAMP stack on 18.06, if you build it all on the OpenWrt machine itself.

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