On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:01:31 +0000 haleem safi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Debian users, > > > I am Haleem and new to the Linux world, I Need to install > osTicket<http://osticket.com/> on Apache, web Server. I Need to > install first Debian, please instruct me what will be the suitable > package for me,to download > > I have Wmware ESXI 5.5 virtual machine, on Dell power edge 720 > Server. in the Virtual machine I Windows Server 2008 and I want to > install Debian and then Apache, > > your Support will be appreciated > For a production server, Debian is an excellent choice, however it's probably not the easiest way into Linux. For your particular application, which apart from Linux and Apache, will also need MySQL and PHP, you need what is referred to as a LAMP server. There are a number of these available as specialised distributions, based on either Debian, SuSe or RedHat/Centos, or there is a portable version which will run on Windows, from a USB stick if required (USBwebserver, http://www.usbwebserver.net). Some are mentioned here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apache%E2%80%93MySQL%E2%80%93PHP_packages you will need to check which versions of the components are included. Here is a guide to making a LAMP server from Ubuntu, one of the more popular Debian-based distributions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP There's a lot more on the Net about LAMP servers, much of which of course is out of date. If you still wish to start with Debian itself, you will find less hand-holding. Here is the starting point: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual The most efficient way is probably to start with the Netinstall image https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ for your virtual machine and add what tasks are necessary. Use the expert installation, as various important choices are not available otherwise. Look up anything you don't understand, or come back here. For a server, it's probably not worth using either of the heavyweight desktops, Gnome or KDE, and instead to choose Xfce or LXDE. After a bit of experience, you won't bother with a graphical environment at all on a server, but for someone moving from Windows, it's probably safer to stay graphical for now. What I can't tell you today is exactly what you need for a new installation. My server has the LAMP components, but the originals were installed years ago, and the server upgraded several times as new versions became available, though it still isn't the current Jessie distribution. From time to time, functions have been moved into different packages. These are the packages I have now which seem to be apache2, mysql and php-related: apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-fcgid libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-reload-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient16 libmysqlclient18:amd64 libqt4-sql-mysql:amd64 mysql-client-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-imap php5-ldap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-sqlite phpmyadmin Many of these are dependencies, and not all are probably essential to your application. Selecting the 'web server' role during installation, then installing 'php5' and 'mysql-server' afterwards should pull in most of them. phpmyadmin isn't a dependency, but I find it very useful for administering MySQL, so much so that I need to look up the actual MySQL cli commands when I need them. I repeat, Jessie may not use exactly the same packages as my server, which runs the Wheezy distribution, but this should be a good guide. Best of luck. Any problems, come back and we'll try to help. -- Joe
