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

[Søren Vedel]

Hi Dimitri,

My conclusion to your advice is to install RHEL3/CentOS3 - I understand 
RedHat Enterprise Linux but what is CentOS3? And can I get it for free 
or do I have to pay RedHat xxxx$ ?
	
Dimitri Tarassenko wrote:
> 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.
> 
Does this mean, that RH8 is a bad choice. I have installed it now?


> 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 am not sure if it is better. But it is easier because I install PHP, 
Apache, MySql and a lot of other programs with two commands:

# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.5.1.tar.gz -C /opt
# opt/lampp/lampp start

And then I hit http://localhost and that's it!

> 
>>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 ;)))

I have already tried to explain this. It is a big company but for some 
reason they want to implement their new intranet on the oldest possible 
hardware. A little funny :-)

Regards
Søren Vedel

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> Dimitri Tarassenko