[thelist] Tutorial - step-by-step Linux install to make server

[Scott Harman]

Personally I would go to distrowatch http://www.distrowatch.com/ and pick a
nice distro with what you need.

effectively you can look into it, and pick out which builds you think would
be appropriate.
I'm currently running mandy 9 - I've found it to be far more reliable for a
web development box than red hat -
If you are keen on red hat (great gui) then stay well away for 8, unless you
want to compile in apache 1.3.27.
IMHO Apache 2.040/44 is wildly unstable and has no end of issues with
various php applications.

>From distro watch they've got links to the download locations.  BTW - why
not have your linux box acting a nice firewall also?  the proxy servers
available are very very good.
Will shut up now, and head to work and continue this there if you've got any
further questions.

Scotty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Blair" <hblair at hotfootmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:16 AM
Subject: [thelist] Tutorial - step-by-step Linux install to make server


> Hi folks,
>
> I've looked all over and haven't really found what I
> want so I'm asking here.
>
> I have an old box that I want to turn into an internal
> (only on my LAN) Linux web-type server. I have Red Hat
> (latest) and no experience. I think I can stumble through
> this but if anyone could point me to a step-by-step to
> make this happen I'd be a really happy camper.
>
> Simple setup:
>
> Win cpu   -> switch -> router -> cablemodem
> Win cpu   -> switch
> Linux cpu -> switch
>