From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 20:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4FA37B409 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15moR9-00077N-00; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:35:39 +1200 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8S3ZcE58899; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:35:38 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:35:38 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "B & M Converter LTD." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd to be a apache webserver Message-ID: <20010928153538.A58837@jonc.itouch> References: <3BB3D37B.14B9A30E@on.aibn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB3D37B.14B9A30E@on.aibn.com>; from bmconv@on.aibn.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:33:47PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:33:47PM -0400, B & M Converter LTD. wrote: > Hello....I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a howto on > installing FreeBSD to be a webserver. I have read lots of info on > installing for newbies but I question how secure the system will be when > suggested that I install ALL applications and port collection. Is there > a list of just the apps and ports necessary for my machine to function > as a webserver? The thing you need is Apache. Everything else is fluff (useful fluff, in many cases). # cd /usr/ports/web/apache13 # make # make install # make clean At which point, you start reading the Apache Handbook for local customisation. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message