--- JK Scheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to setup, in the easiest and quickest possible way, a server
for apache-ssl, php, mysql, and postfix/courier-imap.
I've installed FreeBSD 6.0. A minimal install. I don't care about
anything else but those applications and services ( well, ssh so I
can attach to the machine, but I have that working already )
I don't feel the need to work from sources, binaries would probably
be fine. I connect via ssh and don't want X. I'd rather not even
install the development tools ( they are not on there yet)
I'd like to be able to keep the system up to date as patches etc come
out
There are tons of references on how to do this on the net but I've
tried a bunch of them and either they are not complete or they
require hours of cvsup'ing and building from source etc.
You'll need to spend some time here:
rtfm://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html
I just want to get this up and working and not have to spend tons of
time doing that or maintaining it
So, how do you recommend I do this?
Well, you might need to RTFM just a little bit if you get stuck. And trust
me, it's worth it. Since you seem to be in a hurry, I'll assume you
installed 6.0-RELEASE (you can check this with uname -a). Also, I'd keep
a written log or an a text file on a separate machine of what you do and
what worked because you can easily bork a machine if you are in too much
of a hurry. So it helps to know how to recover quickly. Anyway,
As root, cd to /usr/ports/packages/All - if it doesn't exist, then do
mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages/All
cd /usr/ports/packages/All
Since you don't use X, use lynx or your favourite ftp client to browse
this little lot. You may, of course, use a more convenient mirror site.
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/All/
The above contains hundreds of binary packages at the time of 6.0-RELEASE
going out. Now, if you were prepared to RTFM I'd recommend using
pkg_add -r package name
but that would require you first playing with /etc/make.conf, and so on as
sometimes remote fetching needs tweaking. Instead, I suggest you look over
the FTP site above and download to
/usr/ports/packages/All
the packages you require. Then use pkg_add to install them. I'm not
familiar with the precise packages mix you require, so you might have
dependency problems. In which case, try
man pkg_add
or
rtfm://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#APPLICATIONS
rtfm://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html
or this list.
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