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I've convinced my school for on the webserver I administrate to convert to FreeBSD! Beats UBuntu Linux :puke:.
I am going to read the manuals, but I am looking for any tips or pointers I should do.
I want to have a secure, accessible web server (FTP and HTTP) that has PHP and MySQL support (possibly Perl).
I'll probably be doing most of the configuring remotely over SSH if that has any relevance.
I know Tom has alot he could say here LOL.
I am going to read the manuals, but I am looking for any tips or pointers I should do.
I want to have a secure, accessible web server (FTP and HTTP) that has PHP and MySQL support (possibly Perl).
I'll probably be doing most of the configuring remotely over SSH if that has any relevance.
I know Tom has alot he could say here LOL.
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Read the handbook, it's excellent, FTP is built into the base system, unless you want to use another daemon.
Apache is best to use for HTTP. I use 1.3x but 2x is just as good.
If you want things like quotas and other special features a custom kernel is needed; they're very easy to compile so shouldn't be too hard.
PHP and MySQL are mentioned in two topics I posted on this forum.
Depending on how much time you have you can either use ports or compile from the source.
If you configure everything right you can have all of that in under 250MB.
Really? I wouldn't use Linux at all.
however i'm very interested in learning more about FreeBSD, i know nothing so how about some of the experianced users give some good pointers, places to learn more.. and i want to hear more about making a custom kernal
Learn FreeBSD by reading the handbook. A lot of reading, but it's worth it. I'll admit to not reading much of it, but what I did go over helped.
As for building a kernel, you only need to if you have funky hardware not supported in the default kernel or modules.
BTW, I'd like to ask one thing about FreeBSD and kernel modules: can it load them on-the-fly? I remember seeing a thread on the LinuxISO forums about making sound work in BSD, the guy said he had to edit some file in /boot, i forget what it was. So would he have edited it to make it load the module at all or make it load by default?
Linux is not easier to learn the FreeBSD. If anything, I would say FreeBSD is easier to learn because of superior documentation. A fair compromise (take it or leave it) would be that they're just different one not being easier than the other, i don't really believe that (given the superior manpages etc.) but I'm not interested in starting another Linux vs Reality war @ 1:19AM.
And yes, you can load modules in FreeBSD, similar to modprobe.
btw: I also like how you threw Gentoo in there for hopes of support
I use Gentoo because I like *nix but FreeBSD doesn't have proper drivers (other than shitty xorg ones) for my Radeon, I love ATI
While it is true i don't hate Linux like some people I'm not a fanboy either.
And so I mentioned how I would have done it, notably, by avoiding a desktop-oriented distro.