[TYPO3-linux] Compaq proliant server & RedHat & XAMPP & TYPO3 = Big HeadAche

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Søren,

On 1/26/06, Søren Vedel <sv at workhouse.com.br> wrote:

> They want it to run on Linux RedHat because they feel that it will be
> easier to get support. Until now I have succeeded to get RedHat 8 up
> running without problems. RH ver. 9 and 10 didn't find the harddisks!

Never heard of RH10. From what I hear the real problem is that 2.6
kernels no longer support some legacy HP/Compaq/LSI SCSI & RAID
controllers. The latest RH products that you should be able to run on
this iron is either RH9 or RHEL3/CentOS3, RH9 may require a driver
disk during installation.

I've got a bunch of old HP & Compaq hardware that is 5 years or older,
and it's quite solid. However, you are limited to older kernels with
it. The MegaRAIDs are still a lot more stable than any new cheapo
serial ATA RAID cards.

> But... it seems very complicated to me, because everytime I try to do
> something I get messages like: Missing this and missing that...

> I have installed XAMPP and this was really easy, because I am not used
> to setup a webserver, so I chose the easy solution.

And out of curiousity, how is that better/easier than the stock Apache/PHP?

> I consider to ask them to buy another server - what do you think?

The only way I would keep this old hardware is if you run
RHEL3/CentOS3 on it. EOL for both is in 2007(?) with updates available
until then. I would also try to stay with as much "stock" stuff as
possible - I don't see any reason to put XAMPP on it, stock PHP/Apache
will do just fine.

However, remind your clients that the market value of their server is
around $200 and if they like it so much they should probably buy
another one just like that to pull parts from it;)) This typically
gives them a very good picture of what p.o.s. their server is ;)))

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Dimitri Tarassenko