On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:33 -0400, John Nichel wrote: > The OS install will take between 1 - 3 hours, depending on the machine. > Setting up mod_rewrite to work via .htaccess is simple; compile it in, > and make sure it's allowed to work via .htaccess in the httpd.conf. Not > really sure what the OP meant by wildcard DNS, but if it was just > *.mydomain.com, the zone file nor the Apache config are all that tough. > Copying over DB's...fast as the machine can copy. These are all the > easy, quick tasks. > > Building Apache/PHP can take some time depending on what you want > included. Vanilla installs of the two I can do in under 30 minutes, but > once you start including modules, you may or may not have to install > other software to meet the dependencies of those modules. Then there's > whether or not he wants SSL, mm, or other modules in Apache. And we > haven't even touched on init scripts, or security...that's all part of > getting this stuff up and running. No offense, but if someone's doing > this in 6 hours, I would be worried about the job not being complete. > This is not Windows we are talking about where you have to wait for each reboot. And then reboot again and again after patching. I can do a full Fedora Core 4/SuSe Pro 9.3/SuSe Enterprise 9 install in under and hour. Add another 30 minutes for updates, due to my T1 slow download speeds. I've been following this and I can say for a fact this could be done in 6 hours or less. And guarantee a secure server. How do I know? Because I build these configurations almost daily. If you get stuck with init scripts there's something wrong. Maybe you should man "chkconfig". Brad Dameron Senior Systems Administrator SeaTab Software -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
