[WBEL-users] Easy to kickstart

[Christian Huegel]

Dave Nuttall wrote:
> Yes, thanks for pointing out the security caveat.  I read it before I
> started and can easily make it safe enough for my purposes.  What I'm REALLY
> interested in learning is the "how-to" that is embedded in the XAMPP distro.

If this is fine for you ok. BTW. a member from the fedoraforum.de wrote 
a howto how to easy switch between php4 und php5, he also wrote a 
script. I will ask him if he is so kind to translate it (or maybe i 
do);it could be really interesting.


> 
> Trying to compile/update for testing FUTURE versions has been a big time
> consumer for me.  The apps that we're working on do not need MySQL 4.x at
> the moment, but they will soon and my view is "get there as soon as
> possible".   If you happen to read the Whitebox forums, you may find a post
> I made yesterday asking if anyone can point to a "dependencies" map.  I've
> been able to compile Apache 2.0.x on WBEL and also recompiled MySQL 4.0.20
> from source, but when I install them and then try to add PHP 4 it gets all
> messed up with pspell and I've yet to find a SPEC file for PHP5.

Take a look at this discussion on the list (if you havenīt read it already)
http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/thread.html#730


Best regards from Munich,

Christian

> 
> Thanks again for your note and best regards from South Texas.
> Dave
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Huegel [mailto:christian.huegel@fedoraforum.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: dnuttall@dnlt.com
> Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Easy to kickstart
> 
> Dave Nuttall wrote:
> 
>>Yesterday I posted a "plea" for collaboration on making a WBEL minimal 
>>install run the latest and greatest Apache/MySQL and PHP/Perl.  One 
>>person responded with a question as to WHY I needed to run MySQL 4.x.  
>>The answer was/is that I'm interested in the spatial data features.
>>
>> 
>>
>>While cruising the many forums, blogs and posts about how to get a 
>>leading edge LAMP environment, I found some short postings that asked 
>>"why bother to roll your own when there is such a good package that does 
>>it all".and like many of "us" I rolled my eyes and said "yeah, right" to 
>>myself.
>>
>> 
>>
>>But then I made a life-changing move:  I actually found the referenced 
>>package, downloaded it and unpacked it on my WBEL minimal install 
>>machine and "voila"..an absolutely marvelous working copy of Apache 
>>2.0.52, MySQL 4.0.21, PHP4 and PHP5 and all the related and neat 
>>features included such as SSL, gd-2.x, etc.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Its called "XAMPP for Linux" and can be found on Sourceforge or via 
>>their website in Germany as http://www.apachefriends.org 
>><http://www.apachefriends.org/>.
>>
>> 
>>
>>I'm hoping to get access to a "development version" of XAMPP, but as I 
>>post this, their link (via Sourceforge) seems to be broken.   I'm sure I 
>>can and will learn a bunch from these fine people in Germany.  Check 
>>them out.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Please contact me off-line if you wish to collaborate.  It only took a 
>>couple minutes to make XAMPP work and a mere 5 more to make it 
>>start/stop during boot/reboot.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Best regards from San Antonio, TX
>>
>>Dave
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
> just quoting from the project website:
> 
> "...As mentioned before, XAMPP is not meant for production use but only 
> for developers in a development environment..."
> 
> So, XAMMP is just a nice toy, and like the developers said, never use it 
> in an production environment (ProFTP is one reason; just askin' why they 
> include it in XAMPP).
> To be honest, who is using WBEL as a workstation anyway?
> 
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> Have a nice day,
> 
> Christian
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