On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Hiep Nguyen <hiep@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
--
-matt
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