--- Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> 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. > 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! -- Mark rt3 packages for C5+ (till March 21) http://www.tlviewer.org/rt3 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ