Brad Dameron wrote:
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.
And now you have a vanilla rpm install of all of the software. *I*
wouldn't hire a person to do the job for me if that's what I'm going to
get. YMMV
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".
I didn't say anything about getting 'stuck with init'. I pointed it out
as another thing which has to be done in an install. If you're building
this almost daily, maybe you should look into making yourself an image.
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John C. Nichel
ÜberGeek
KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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