[ale] Web Server Questions

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I have a few questions related to setting up a LAMP platform.  The
> questions mainly pertain to what versions of the software are considered
> the most stable/secure.
>
> 1. The first is what distribution should I used for the base platform?
> What version?  I'm partial to gentoo myself, but I'm open to other
> suggestions.

This is more of a holy war than anything else. When I need to deploy low
cost hosting solutions, I usually look to RedHat. They have good
documentation, and there are a variety of place to find support.


> 2.  Should I use apache 1.x or 2.x?  Should I rpm, apt-get, emerge, or
> compile from scratch?

I like to build from scratch. I like to decide what goes into my binaries.
Most of the distros use a best guess, but they don't know your
requirements, so they toss everything in to be safe.

>
> 3.  As far as MySQL I thinking the latest stable version would be fine,
> Comments are welcome here as well.

I am running 3.2.54a. I haven't had any issues so far. I would be careful
which version you use. A number of volnerabilities were recently fixed in
the mysql code base.

>
> 4.  PHP/Perl plugins for apache are available, what versions are
> considered stable/secure?
>

I always use the latest revs of mod PHP/mod Perl. I highly recommend you
create a sandbox to test new software before migrating to production.

> Thanks for any info.
>
>
> Calvin...
>
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