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| 159086 | 2003-07-12 01:26:00 | Hi, I want to have a play around at home with an Apache server. For learning purposes I want to set it up text only (no GUI) is this wise? I know I could set it up with a GUI & make life easier but I don't think you grasp the inner workings as well If something doesn't work properly it's all too easy to flick it into the GUI & fix it if it's there. I am reasonably experienced in matters Linux, but my knowledge re Apache is pretty sketchy. My main question is, what would be the best distro to install & what are the minimum requirements keeping in mind it will only be serving 6 machines at home What other modules are necessary to run it? I have 10 spare machines lying around from a 486 with 16Mb Ram & a 1Gig Hard drive to a 500AMD with 128Mb Ram I'd like to stick it on the 486 if possible & I want to set up a firewall on another 486 (probably IP cop) I have most distros from 6 thru 9 mandrake & Red Hat & Lycros I know I should hunt all the info down myself, but as there are a few Linux experts hanging round here & time is something I don't have a lot of just now, I thought I would ask for your advice first Any advice, suggestions or links would be much appreciated. Thanks in Advance. SB |
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| 159087 | 2003-07-12 02:00:00 | Howdy Stumped, If you are just wanting to have a play around, then it doesn't really matter which linux you use. Using the Redhat distro is probably a good way to start as there are numerous HowTo's specific to it. One such link is this very good read (en.tldp.org) which takes you through a secure installation of Redhat 6 and gives details on putting apache in a chroot jail. As it is purely for playing with and will only be exposed to internal abuse using Redhat 6 won't pose any problems. If you use the above HowTo as a guide it should give you the learning experience you are after. HTH |
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| 159088 | 2003-07-12 02:02:00 | If you install RedHat, install the Apache WebServer and all related options. From there, copy your index.html flle into: /var/www/html/ Along with the rest of your website and you should be all go once you've then enabled the service. Type: # su - and you'll be prompted for your root password then, type: service start httpd and you're off! RedHat 9 is the latest, so obvoiusly has the latest bugfixes and would be my weapon of chioce. It also has a firewall too, so you can setup and configure that :-) Hope this helps Cheers Chill. |
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