User Feedback :: COMPAQ LAPTOP - WEB SERVER and MYSQL WITH PHP



Hey everyone,
   Just wanted to tell everyone that I have taken my Compaq LTE 5380 P133mhz, 48MB, 2.1HD, in a docking station and have gotten it to run my PHPBB forum and website.
   It is running an HD install DSL 2.2B.  I stalled XAMPP on it, and last night I install PHPBB forum on it.  I port forwarded port 80 on router to the Compaq Laptop and running some tests over the internet.
   It is slick... it is actually running very well.  I am going max out the memory on the system to 80mb in a week, but even with 48mb, it is running good.  I am going to migrate my MySQL DB on my server that running my PHPBB forum right now, to the laptop.  I am hoping with in 2 weeks I will be able to turn off my Poweredge Dell server in the garage and use the laptop over that summer in my room to run my forum and website and email server.  Still trying to find a good light weight email server to run on my laptop.  

Just letting you guys know that when running DSL you don't need a real powerful machine to run a MySQL, APACHE, PHP..etc... to get good performance.   So blow the dust off those old system and put them to work.
Hell yah!  Glad you got it working man!

drop us a url so we can check it out

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
AwPhuch
Not sure if this is applicible to your laptop or not but on my Armada 7800 I had to go into the setup and disable acpi in the bios to get the fan to work.  Before that the only way I could get the fan on was to reboot.  The fan would come on and stay at the same speed (so if the system was real hot when I rebooted the fan would be super fast and I would have to reboot several times until the spedd was acceptable) until a reboot was done.  Disabling acpi in the bios has made the fan work properly (comes on when needed and goes off when cooled down).

To add to your comments about the server speed ...

My armada is a 266 and I have kdm installed.  The other day I threw the dsl 2.2 CD in my wife's machine and booted without X started.  I then issued the command Xvesa -ac and a kdm login was displayed from my laptop.  I logged in and was presented with my display and could do anything as if I was at the laptop.  My freesco floppy died though so I set that back up and didn't get back to play with the xterminal login.

The moral ... The possibilities are virtually endless with DSL.
Hey guys, the forum I run is a poltical/military/hiking/computer/space stuff/ 4x4, etc.


I mainly set it up for me and my friends... but all are welcome...    My hobbies include beer making, backpacking and day hiking, mountain biking, lifting weights,4x4 (JEEP) and of course computers I also work full time as a computer programmer/DBA/ Oracle Discoverer Administrator.  So I am always wanting to chat with people with the same interests as me.  So if you guys want to check out my forum  here is the URL

PLANETX APPLICATIONS FORUM

Currently though, it is still running on my Dell Poweredge Server.  I am still testing it on the old compaq laptop, last night I port forwarded 80 to the laptop to run tests...  I won't put the compaq as full time server until I have the email server put on it fully running the way I want.  I figure in 2 weeks...only.. 2 weeks I will have it fully running and ready to serve the world.      Planetxapps is my domain.  It is a name I call my side business that my friend and I do building small business networks on the side away from our full time jobs.  About 7 months ago, something hit me... I got really tried of Microsoft...  this has been coming slowly for the last few years, but 7 months ago that was it... I started looking into flavors of Linux...  I messed with SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu.   I ended up really liking Ubuntu because it was only 1 CD to worry about...   Then I stumbled on DSL and Puppy Linux and my world changed over night...  I quickly ditched Puppy and went head over heals for DSL...

DSL has given me a new drive for computers because I can do just about everything I need with it on a system that is 10 years old.  I don't have to spend lots of cash to keep up with the hardware.  And when I did run DSL on my new system, it was incredible... I still get amazed at the speed.  

I am still learning Linux, but since I bought a couple of books, things are getting more clear and I am doing well with it.  It makes sense and searching the forum has answered so many questions.  Most people asked the same questions.  

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS: WHEN YOU CAN HOST A MYSQL FORUM, WEBSITE, AND EMAIL SERVER ON A 10 YEAR OLD MACHINE THAT HAS ONLY 48MB(SOON TO BE 80mb) THEN YOU HAVE FOUND ONE DAMN KILLER OS...  

I will keep you guys upto date.  I am also going to post my procedures of setting up the whole thing.  So if a newbe (Like me) wants to setup a website and/or Mysql DB and/or etc...  they will be able to.  

It really hasn't been that hard... I  have made a few mistakes, but between DSL being awesome and XAMPP being easy, it has been easier so far than setting it up on WIN2K...  

I am starting to try to learn Mosix to.  I have been reading and trying to learn it and I want to get Mosix running on my network as a test.  Maybe this summer I can get 2 test boxes together and test Mosix and try to get it going with DSL.






MOSIX
brain...

I had no idea that you could control the fan like that...

See... this forum is great.. everything I log on here I learn something new...

I will have to check out my laptop and see it that will effect my laptop...  fans are important...  eventhough my laptop will be inside and out of the heat during the summer, while I am gone away from home, the house will still get warm because I turn off the AC... so this is worth investigating...

Thanks
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