[ale] New server setup

[Jim Philips]

My experience with Apache and PHP tells me you should compile those programs on your box and compile PHP in as a module. All the literature I found on it warned against trying to do that with RPM's.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary MacKay [mailto:Gary at EdisonInfo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:41 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] New server setup



I'm setting up a new server that I plan to host several domains (web and
mail) on. What is the prefered method of install? What I mean is, should
I stick to the rpm's or custom compile all software? Yes, I'm using
RedHat 7.1, (forget the flames, etc.), because the question applies to
any distro I think. Should I use the standard package manager (ie. rpm,
pkg_add, whatever) or compile from source? 


   Software info:
RedHat 7.1
Apache
MySql
PHP
OpenSSL
PostGreSql
Qmail
Courier-imap


   Hardware info:


HP e800 PIII 866
640mg ram
9.1gig SCSI (/dev/sda)
18gig SCSIÂ  (/dev/sdb)


Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  985MÂ Â  58MÂ  877MÂ Â  7% /
/dev/sda1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  20MÂ  4.0MÂ Â  15MÂ  21% /boot
/dev/sda7Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  4.4GÂ  2.3MÂ  4.1GÂ Â  1% /home
/dev/sda5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  3.0GÂ  1.3GÂ  1.5GÂ  44% /usr
/dev/sdb5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  16GÂ Â  37MÂ Â  15GÂ Â  1% /var
/dev/hda              641M  642M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom


Note: No shell accounts, just pop3 and www.


- Gary
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