I switched over from Windows a couple of years ago. I'm not a pro, but I
found a few things that were frustrating for me as I switched distros or
got a new machine.
Here's my advice that others have not already covered.
1) Take the time to figure out how to move your /home to another partition.
2) I use E_ALL | E_STRICT. Then you know you're good regardless of the
production server settings.
3) Find a way to reproduce the environment on your machine. This caused
me no end of headaches at first because it took me days to finally
remember all of the applications I needed installed and figuring out how
they were configured different.
I created two files. The first is a shell script that installs all of
the applications I use, changes settings/permissions and makes copies of
config files. Then you've always got your back covered. The second is
instructions and information about how to manually change things that
need to be manually changed. (config files, etc) . The only trick is
being religious about updating the files every time you
install/configure applications. However, this made my last hardware
upgrade go wickedly fast.
So for LAMP I've got this:
(script)
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
#extensions
sudo apt-get install -y sendmail php-pear php5-mysql php5-ldap
php5-xsl php5-xdebug php5-curl php5-mcrypt
sudo mkdir /var/lib/php5/session
sudo chgrp www-data /var/lib/php5/session
sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/php5/session
sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
sudo pear install phpunit/phpcpd
cd /etc/php/apache2
sudo cp php.ini php.ini.original
cd /etc/mysql
sudo cp my.cnf my.cnf.original
(config)
cd /etc/php5/apache2/
gksudo gedit php.ini &
# see php.ini.diff
diff php.ini php.ini.original > ~/howtos/php.ini.diff
cd /etc/mysql/
gksudo gedit my.cnf &
# see my.cnf.diff
diff my.cnf my.cnf.original > ~/howtos/my.cnf.diff
Where php.ini.diff looks like this:
390c390
< error_log = /localhost/web_logs/php_errors.txt
---
> ;error_log = filename
1007c1007
< session.gc_maxlifetime = 14400
---
> session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
HTH
J
[email protected] wrote:
Okay, one last batch of questions then I'll leave you guys alone for
another six months. ;-)
I recently set up my first LAMP stack using Ubuntu--it seemed like the
easiest option, and so far I love it. From now on this will be my local
testing server.
I've installed OpenSSH so I can practice "talking" to Linux & MySQL via
the command line from my primary computer. I intend to perhaps also
install up some sort of FTP & mail server, if for no other reason than
to understand how they work on the other end.
Aside from occasional shell access to remote servers and setting up cron
jobs I'm a total Linux noob, so this is a whole new world for me. I've
dealt with Apache .conf files a bit, and also with php.ini files. Not so
much with MySQL .cnf files.
At present, aside form having set passwords I'm still using the default
config files that were installed with Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.26, MySQL
5.0.75, and phpMyAdmin 3.1.2. I'd like to turn off things that are
commonly disabled in shared hosting environments so that I don't
inadvertently use something that's not going to work on a production
server over which I have little or no control.
Do any of you have recommendations on configuration settings to use?
Which packages/extensions/modules should be installed/enabled?
Should I go ahead and turn off error reporting and enable it via my
scripts, or should I leave it on all the time? If I should leave it on,
at what level should I set it? E_ALL?
Are there any other settings or extensions that might be helpful someone
like me who's still prone to making rookie mistakes?
Would it be a good idea to use one php.ini file while I'm writing &
debugging my code, and then a second one for testing immediately prior
to moving to a production server? If so, how should they differ?
Would this be a good time to learn how to use CVS or Subversion?
As always, any advice is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Bev
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