Web Server?

Forum: Networking
Topic: Web Server?
started by: eob

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Posted by eob on June 12 2007,00:48

I've got one more website to write and then I can play with DSL. I'm planning on building a little embedded system for fun but at present I use an old Compaq Presario (256mb of RAM, Coppermine processor ~500Mhz) to run Ubuntu as a webserver. Now that I've booted up DSL on it, and it FLIES, I'm kinda thinking that DSL would be the better option, but....

How difficult is it to turn DSL into a webserver? Install apt-get and run Apache?

Thanks in Advance!

A new DSL convert!

Eamonn

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Posted by roberts on June 12 2007,01:23

We have lighttpd small webserver in the repository.
But for heavy lifting I would recommend the XAMPP project.
It easily installs to /opt and works great with DSL.

< http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html >

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Posted by eob on June 12 2007,20:53

I'm aware of XAMPP but I'm not keen on off-the-shelf stuff when I'm used to configuring a LAMP environment via APT-GET (ie. manually installing Apache, PHP, GD, etc)..

However, I've got a spare HDD here somewhere, I'll give it a shot

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