On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:28:34PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> So a "new to the linux thing" guy is setting up a RH webserver for his 
> office and he asked me to show him how it all works, where files are, 
> etc.  I'm sure he's doing the old "install it all now so i don't have to 
> add more later" approach.  Now, i'm a deb guy, so i am pretty worthless 
> with the whole RPM thing.  Basically, I'm wondering if there's a good 
> distro that is built to be a webserver (apache), and built to do little 
> else.  No GUI, but easy to set up type thing.  I am afraid this guy's 
> going to run (and i had an old boss that did this) RH with evreything 
> other thing installed, including X, and it'll be a big darn mess for him 
> to figure out what is going on with his "server". 

Fortunately RedHat doesn't mysteriously break when httpd when you install
someone completely unrelated like KDE.

I'd set him up with apt4rpm (http://apt.freshrpms.net) which should give
you a good head start on maintaining the system. Other than that, web
setup/administration will consist of changing a few things in /etc/httpd/conf

> 
> So, any advise, suggestion would be cool.  thanks
> dan

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