On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at 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. -- -matt