Quoting "Leonard, Harry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello FreeBSD, > > My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work > in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, in > a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I'm the resident programmer > and I've used Perl/PHP/MySQL here for almost four years. My boss has set up > servers running OpenBSD and I get to use them creating our website and > running intranet applications. My problem now is that my boss is in Iraq > and we're in need of a new server or two. > > I've researched the subject and have found myself getting a little squeamish > with the thought of installing/tweaking an OpenBSD box. FreeBSD seemed like > the next viable option and I did get a thumbs up from my boss. I also saw a > segment on TechTv's Screen Savers which gave me the confidence that I could > pull this off. I started looking at versions and decided to purchase the > latest and greatest. > > I bought the four disk set of FreeBSD 5.0 w/ the handbook and thought I was > on a roll. Surely, I installed it several times before I got it right and > then I began to run into problems and loose some confidence. My problems > started with the installation of Apache. I'm going back after it today > though and I hope that I'll have some success. Yes, I am a newbie but a > driven one. I very much want to have two FreeBSD boxes in-house and I am a > hard one to quit. I did quit on FreeBSD 5.0 though and I also think this is > where my troubles really began. > > I figured that I would do some more reading and found that 5.0 might not be > the best version for newbie's (in cases of trouble). So, I figured that I > would go to FreeBSD 5.1. A newer version shouldn't hurt huh? Well, I think > something went awry in the download and I never got this version to work > correctly for me either. Well, now I'm figuring that I'll just move > backwards to FreeBSD 4.8 Stable and this will just alleviate all my > problems. This has not worked yet for me either and my confidence is > further eroding. But, my tenacity is still in there and I'd rather go down > in flames than let my office mate turn this office into a full Microsoft > shop and me running Apache/PHP/MySQL on an IIS box. My boss expressed his > dismay of this happening and I told him I would not let him down. Newbie I > may be but I'm not a quitter. > > This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for > production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and > another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might > have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on > top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the most > success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing > that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of > approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. > Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to > give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for > any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what > you think? > Most likely you should use FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE for any kind of production server. I run FreeBSD 5.x-CURRENT on all of my machines without a problem (with apache, mysql, php, etc...) but I still don't recommend that people do that.
What kind of problems are you having? I doubt that your problems are FreeBSD specific... they are probably more specific to the server apps you are running (apache, etc...). Ken _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
