Topic: MySQl and E-Smith

[Mike Stoddart]

I posted this an older thread, but I wasnt sure if anyone would notice my new post. So please forgive the duplication!

Is it possible to install the rpms for the latest version of MySql on an E-Smith server? Will I then be able to use perl or php with Apache and MySql with no additional work?

There are a number of "web applications" I want to setup on my E-Smith server, but I don't want to mess up the basic install, if you understand what I mean.

Cheers
Mike

[Charlie Brady]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> Is it possible to install the rpms for the latest version of
> MySql on an E-Smith server?

Yes.

> Will I then be able to use perl or
> php with Apache and MySql with no additional work?

You can use perl (the e-smith manager panel is a perl script) and your
perl scripts can access MySQL databases if you have the code to do that. PHP is another matter - you can use it as a standalone script interpreter, but without changing the e-smith server configs you will not be able to use PHP as an apache module.

> There are a number of "web applications" I want to
> setup on my E-Smith server, but I don't want to mess up the
> basic install, if you understand what I mean.

Many web applications will require some apache configuration changes, and that implies messing with the e-smith install. There are some instructions for customising the e-smith server at http://www.e-smith.org/custom/.

Regards

Charlie