On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Matt Shields wrote: > > > 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. > > is this include SSL??? > Learn Yum, it's your friend. If you don't know how to use it just type "yum" and it will give you a list of options. See how I used "yum groupinfo" on the "Web Server" group. One of the default packages is mod_ssl. [root at admin ~]# yum groupinfo "Web Server" Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 comps.xml 100% |=========================| 912 kB 00:02 yumgroups.xml 100% |=========================| 9.7 kB 00:00 Group: Web Server Description: These tools allow you to run a Web server on the system. Mandatory Packages: httpd Default Packages: tux mod_python mod_ssl distcache webalizer php-ldap squid mod_perl crypto-utils httpd-manual php Optional Packages: php-odbc tomcat5-admin-webapps php-pear mod_auth_kerb httpd-suexec tomcat5-webapps mod_nss mod_auth_pgsql mod_auth_mysql mod_authz_ldap tomcat5 php-mysql php-pgsql -- -matt