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[Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>]

On Jan 20, 2004, at 9:12 AM, Michael Best wrote:

> I am considering setting up a web server machine at my home to host 
> some of
> my web sites.  So far, I've installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 and not much 
> else.
> But now I'm kind of stuck.  Also I'm not even sure if Linux is the way 
> to
> go.  I've heard good things about BSD (Open/Free) also.  What I'd 
> really
> like is an install will give me what I want out of the box: web, 
> email, dns,
> ssh, web-based configuration for all of the above, plus perl, php, 
> c/c++
> compilers, tcl, mysql, etc.

Mike -

Depending on what kind of install you did the apache web server is 
already installed. You can verify this using the Red Hat Package 
Manager (RPM). Run "rpm -q httpd" and you should get back something 
like "httpd-2.0.48-1.2". Your document root is in /var/www/html and 
your cgi-bin is in /var/www/ Apache config files are in 
/etc/httpd/conf/.

You can check your php install the same way. Run "rpm -q php" to see if 
the base package is installed. There are optional modules, such as 
php-ldap, php-mysql, etc that you may want to look for as well.

With Red Hat 9 you can use 'yum' to install and search for new 
software. Try running "yum search php" After updating some headers 
you'll see a list of which packages, both installed and available match 
the string 'php'. You can then install any package with "yum install 
<package_name>"


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