Building a virgin.

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Install apache first before mysql and php.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Grant Peel
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:17 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Building a virgin.


Hi all,

As some of you know I have been expierncing random freezing of a PE
1850.
Since there is no real answer (lots of opinions), I have decided to
build a
new server for my client.

I have a PE 750 that has been running a year now as a devel server.
All that
was needed was to upgrade the HD to 74GB per the original quote.
That was
done this weekend.

FreeBSD 5.4 has been installed and the ports collection CVSUpded
this
morning. The kernel has been rebuilt to allow QUOTAs, and a basic
ipfw
firewall setup.

I have loaded a number of servers in the past, with success, all of
them
based around PHP APache, MySQL Exim and vm-pop3d.

All that having been said, I wanted to pick some brains of y'all
regarding
how you would handle loading all the new software on the server.

The goal here is to have a functional webserver, with Apache, MySQL,
PHP(with bells and whistles) , PERL, vm-pop3d, Exim(MTA),
Spamassassin,
Webmin, Usermin, ipa (for bandwidth accounting), Webalizer

It will be used my my client to lots of virtual hosting. However, I
am the
only one with shell access.

Here is what I intend to do ... suggestions, criticisms welcome.
(i.e. doing
something backwards, missing some critical steps etc). The first few
lines
are the ones I ussually trip over ... geting PHP and apache to work
right
together, and getting the correct PHP extensions istalled. Also, I
like
using Apache 2.x so I can have one deamon with http and https in one
deamon.

If anyone has a slicker flow of installation, I would really like to
hear
about it!

installing database/MySQL server (4.1.18_1)
installing database/MySQL client (4.1.18)

install lang/PHP4 (4.4.1_1)
install (use config) lang/php-extensions

install apache

install Exim

install vm-pop3d

install p5-spamassassin

install webalizer

install and customize Webmin

install and costomize usermin

install and configure various scripts for backups, log rotation,
mrtg
(system load) etc etc.

-Grant


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