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    Making a LAMP server

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by justin15, Mar 2, 2007.

  1. justin15

    justin15 Notebook Evangelist

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    Me and a tech guy were chatting at my school, and we came to the idea of taking the time to get a LAMP server for me, right now you'd classif it as WAMP I guess. So, I was wondering, what specs are needed for this?

    It will be fobeora core 6.

    I got:

    P2 333MHz
    194MB Ram

    I know its nothing great, but its just a personal/hobby server.
     
    justin15, Mar 2, 2007
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  2. BigV

    BigV Notebook Deity

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    I'm biased... but I would suggest Ubuntu.

    http://www.ubuntu.com/server

    It has an install-time option to set itself up as a LAMP server.
     
    BigV, Mar 3, 2007
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  3. justin15

    justin15 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, so I've got that, and Fobera (Spelling?) Core 6.

    So now we need to narrow down which would run better, and which is easier for install.
     
    justin15, Mar 4, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Fedora. You can run either. You will almost certainly want to limit it to a text-only install though, which means you'll have to learn Linux from the command line. You CAN run X, but it won't go fast, and your machine will already be somewhat taxed running a LAMP server. Your best friends through this process will be Google, and the forums at ubuntu.com. Very helpful, smart people, and you'll want to search through the archives. It will have posts on anything you'll want to do.
     
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    justin15 Notebook Evangelist

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    I might make a new topic on this, all depending on the comments I get here now.

    I found some old CD's, (3 of them), marked with FC on them, so I thought it might be Fedora core, and it was.

    I just noticed its fedora core 2, the only real thing this is for, is for my server, thats it. And maybe to play with. Should I burn the new CD images and get FC 6?
     
    justin15, Mar 4, 2007
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    I think FC6 is like 4GB of stuff, but whatever works.

    FC2 is really old (in Linux-land,) and there won't be any security/feature updates being released. This might not be a huge issue if your server won't be accepting connections from the Internet, but I would still go with the newer stuff anyway.
     
    BigV, Mar 5, 2007
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    You should probably look at Ubuntu 6.10 Server... If you download that and then decide that you want to try to run X, type: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop for gnome, sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop for KDE, sudo apt-get install xubuntu for Xfce (might be nice for a low-end system). If I were you, I'd get a bit more ram. I can't really comment, my PIII with 384MB PC100 and 500GB HD is amazingly fast and has been up for 72 days since a power-outage
     
    avisitor, Mar 6, 2007
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