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  • From: Paul Smith <paul AT foundryzero.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Setting up a web server machine
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:15:23 -0500


Linux is ideal for setting up a home web server. RedHat Linux 9.0 is probably not the best distro choice, though: RedHat has discontinued the "RedHat Linux" distro, and 9.0 is the last version. They've also set the end-of-life for RH9.0 for the not-so-distant future (not sure when tho).
"Free" RedHat Linux is now called Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com) and is now "community-supported, RedHat-sponsored". I haven't tried it, but from what I can tell it looks like what I'd expect RH9.1 or RH10 or whatever would look like.
With the "RedHat Linux" distro's it's been possible to upgrade from one version to the next without much trouble (well, easy for minor-rev upgrades, sometimes not-so-easy with major-rev upgrades), but you almost certainly won't be able upgrade from RH9.0 to Fedora or use any Fedora RPMs in RH9.0. If you're just getting started, you'd be better off getting started with Fedora (or some other distro) than RH9.


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Paul Smith
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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.

What experience have you had with setting up a web server? Thanks for your
time.

-- Michael Best

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