--- Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen hiep@ee.ucr.edu wrote:
hi all,
i'm not an expert on linux/centos, but i play
with it and have a general
idea. it's time for me to setup a centos box for
development. i rarely
install anything from source, except a few times
in college when i have to
modify kernel for OS project. but i guess i can
learn now.
i just installed centos 5 with minimal
installation. next step is to
install LAMP w/ SSL.
i found http://lamphowto.com/lampssl.html, but i
have questions before i
proceed.
is it better to install from source or rpm? how
easy it is to
upgrade/update if install from source? it seems
so much easy to
upgrade/update from rpm, well b/c i'm always do
this way.
is there any other instruction (beside the one
mentioned above) to install
LAMP w/ SSL?
appreciate your help/suggestion t. hiep
It's better to stick to the RPMs to make it easier to upgrade. If you want an easy way to install LAMP you can run 2 commands
yum -y groupinstall "Web Server" yum -y install mysql-server php-mysql
This will get Apache, MySQL, and PHP all installed.
Adding to this (which works for me too), here are some default values (from RHEL) for configs and web root:
main configs - /etc/httpd/conf/ for merged configs- /etc/httpd/conf.d/ apache2 daemon name = httpd web root - /var/www/html/
mod_perl config - /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf
note that there is no default mod_perl startup script!