Topic: Apache/PHP/MySQL..

[Felix Olin]

First  of all, is anyone here running the combination mentioned in the topic successfully? (Apache/PHP/MySQL). If so, are you doing that by using the RPMS contributed?

Also, how much can an e-smith server handle anyway? Is the system stable?
We have many hightraffic servers, all handling 100,000's of hits every day. I need to know before I install it and test.

Appreciate reply.

Thank you

Felix Olin
IPD Corporation

[Dan Brown]

Well, I'm doing it, though that may not mean much, as I'm the one who contributed the RPMs.  MySQL is a stock MySQL RPM; there have been no changes to it for e-smith.  Same with Apache (but use the 1.3.12 RPM, not the 1.3.9 that comes with e-smith).

AFAIK, the only limit on how much traffic e-smith can handle is the hardware--you obviously wouldn't want to run a server like you've described with a P75 and 16 MB of RAM.  However, Linux and Apache together are very stable, and capable of handling very high traffic loads (IIRC, Deja.com runs on Linux and Apache, to name one).

[Tim Litwiller]

I am running it on my web server with several web sites.  I have three sites that each get about 70,000 hits per month and 4 more that get 10,000 or less hits per month on this one server.

this is on a PII 266 with 128 meg ram, all are servering dymanic pages with php-nuke as the backend. server load never goes above 1.2 .

[Katchina'404]

Hello,

I'm quite a Linux newbie, and would like to run Apache/PHP/MySQL on my server.  Of course it's E-smith, so I got  Apache  1.3.9 already.  I understand I need 1.3.12 however, is that right ?

Would womeone give me a comprehensive and detailed procedure that I can follow to do all this.

Also, is it just me or is there a serious problem with ftp://ftp.e-smith.com.  I cannot access it from my Linux box or from the e-smith box (haven't tried the Win2k box, but I have doubts). (dec. 2, 11.20 am GMT when trying).  I can't find Apache RPM's on the Apache site, only .tar.

[Dan Brown]

Download Apache 1.3.12, MySQL (along with -shared and -clients), PHP, php-mysql, e-smith-php4, and e-smith-mysql.  Everything except apache is at ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/DanBrown/RPMS/; apache is at ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/tonyc/RPMS/i386/ (also download mod_auth_external from there).  Download all of this into a new directory on the e-smith server.

Then, type "rpm -Uvh *" (without the quotes, of course) in that directory.  That's all you need to do; everything should be installed and configured once it finishes.