ceremorphosis

I took an older box at home (1.2Ghz AMD Athlon) that had been sitting idle for a while, and slapped Ubuntu on it this weekend. Quick and easy install, and was able to backup some of my sites. It had been sitting idle for quite a while – not because I was deciding what do do with it, or lack of hardware. I had to find a way to run power to it without the Destroyer of All Electronics chewing on the cord.

I am running it headless right now, and it’s acting solely as an internal web server. I want to test the current sites I run with PHP5 and MySQL 4.x before I roll them out to the new server we’re buying. Getting everything set up was a breeze.


wraith:/var/www$ sudo apt-get install php5
wraith:/var/www$ sudo apt-get install php5-gd


And so on. Much easier than the download, compile, and install that I had to do on some of my older hosts, esp. when it came to Apache/MySQL/PHP. What I thought was especially cool was that when I did the apt-get for php, it was smart enough to download the necessary dependencies to run Apache2 in prefork mode and relaunch, switching from threaded worker to prefork mode. Slick.