On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:54:03AM -0800, Hiep Nguyen enlightened us: > >On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote: > >> 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. > > all done. now, how do i force apache & mysql servers start up whenever the > box boot? > I would suggest reading the Deployment Guide (http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/) which will answer many of these questions. A place for you to start on this particular question would be the man page of the chkconfig command. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263