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

Quote (NewDude @ April 13 2006,10:30)

So this is your site you are running directly from that laptop using DSL and XAMPP?

Apache/2.2.0 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 mod_apreq2-20050712/2.1.3-dev mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7 Server at www.planetxapps.com Port 80

Brian
AwPhuch

Hey Brian...

Yeah, that is it... We already talked on my forum, but I didn't want to leave this question hanging out there.

As I posted eariler, you can see my hardware list for that machine and my software list.

The only thing that is different now is I have added ProjectZen webmail and it is grabbing mail of my email Win2k server. I still haven't gotten postfix setup because I was in need of accessing my email from work, so I started trying out PHP webmail clients.

ProjectZen works great. Had to create another database in MySQL and run ProjectZen SQL script, configure the config.php file, and that was it. It was very easy to setup. Although, isn't quite what I am looking for, but it works for now.

My next hurdle is: Get postfix installed and configured and getting keep trying out different webmail programs until I find one the fits. ProjectZen might be ok once I get PostFix going, not sure yet.

My main hurdle is: I moved the laptop with docking station into my bedroom. It is quiet, the wife got upset and said she can still hear it and it bugs her. So I have to figure out where I am going to put it in the house. The garage is just going to get to hot in a month or so. I tried researching ways to keep it in the garage and cooling it off, but haven't found anything yet. Everything is geared toward tower PC's, not laptops...

I am considering buying a mini ITX computer that runs silent and run my forum and website off that, but that takes $$.... I have considered buying one off this site that is preconfigured with DSL. They are cheap on this site.

I don't need a lot of power. P133mhz laptop running MySQL, PHP, Apache, forum, website, etc... is running outstanding.

I have looked on Ebay at some older mini's made by HP and they seems like they would be fine, but I just need to figure out away to quiet the laptop down a little so I can hide it in our room without the wife hearing it, I don't want to transfer the forum db over to a new system. Also, it is cool and gives you bragging rights when you say you are running a full blown forum and website using DSL on a P133mhz(A system the was built by Compaq in 1995) 11 years old and running great.

I rub that into my coworkers face daily, as these guys think they have to have the latest and greatest hardware to run their sites using evil Windoze.... How ignorant they all are.

I guess I didn't state this eariler:

Yes, I am using XAMPP.... XAMPP was a little more than what I needed, but Linux being fairly new to me, it was the easiest way to go.

When I get every going in the next week or so, I will sit and finishing documenting what I did, and post it. If any new poeple to Linux want to do what I did, they can go off what I wrote to help them through the process. But so far, it hasn't been that hard.

The hardest thing so far was figuring out why APACHE wasn't post my gifs and jpegs correctly. That was an easy fix in the httpd.conf file.

See if you can get eAccelerator running...find the .dep package and get it installed

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Description
eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

I noticed an instant change in my phpbb when I installed it on my server!

Brian
AwPhuch

well..I can't read this, see your forum, and not say...something.That is totally excellent..was going to post but not sure you want dsl noobs floating over..I would really like to do that so thanks for posting the specs etc..I do not think it will be so easy as you say but..HELLYA

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