jose sanchez <j_r_sanchez@yahoo.com> writes:
I would like to know what would be the way to install and configure APACHE, PHP (with Oracle support), and MYSQL on Debian 3.0?
Should I get the latest tarball versions of all these and just compile it or should I just get the debian packages and install them?
I would suggest using the official packages in Debian stable, if at all possible. Doing this lets you take advantage of timly security advisories.
How well do these servers run on Debian? Is there a better distro for them?
Not to sound like a broken record, but I think Debian is great, especially for servers which you'd like to set up and "forget" about.
Thanks in advance for all your help and sorry for all the questions in one post.
No problem. I'd recommend looking at the packages page I mentioned in my previous post (http://packages.debian.org/), searching for the servers you'd like to run, and verifying that versions new enough for you are in the stable release. If they're not, I'd still recommend using Debian stable, but rebuilding newer packages (from the unstable tree) for your system. If you need any help with this, feel free to ask. -- Josh Huber