From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 13:19:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB0216A420 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:19:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jking@informs.com) Received: from mail.informs.com (mail.informs.com [216.248.165.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C5A43D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:19:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jking@informs.com) Received: (qmail 43634 invoked by uid 1011); 17 Jan 2006 07:19:35 -0600 Received: from 216.248.165.3 by mail.informs.com (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87.1/1197. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(216.248.165.3):. Processed in 0.033344 secs); 17 Jan 2006 13:19:35 -0000 X-Antivirus-INFORMS-Mail-From: jking@informs.com via mail.informs.com X-Antivirus-INFORMS: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(216.248.165.3):. Processed in 0.033344 secs Process 43629) Received: from unknown (HELO ?216.248.165.3?) (216.248.165.3) by mail.informs.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2006 07:19:35 -0600 From: Jason King To: JD Arnold In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:19:33 -0600 Message-Id: <1137503973.10680.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:19:35 -0000 I would stay with the apache 1.3 branch because of some compatibility issues with the 2.0 branch. I would certainly move to at least the v4 branch of MySQL. I haven't tried any of my webapps with v5 yet because of some strange SQL errors I was getting while installing one of them with MySQL v5. It doesn't matter what order you install them in. Jason On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:39 -0500, JD Arnold wrote: > So, I'm building a replacement 6.0 system from the bare metal, moving > over my 4.11 server data after I'm done. I've started from a minimal > installation, and I'm looking for some input. > > 1] Apache - do I stay with 1.3 or move on up to the 2.x branch? > > 2] MySQL - do I stay with the 3.x (!), or move to the v4 or v5 branch? > > 3] What would be the best order to do the installation, or does it matter? > > * Apache > * MySQL > * mod_php5 > > I'm really just running it as a web server, with php & MySQL support and > not much else. >