Posted by Brad Dameron on 09/16/05 23:37

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

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