Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/24/18 5:09 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 12/24/18 2:41 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 12/24/18 2:37 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 12/24/18 7:53 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: I've run a web server internally for years. I've always started by following whatever directions the distro provides for

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/24/18 5:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: It was referring to MariaDB. Since MariaDB functions as a drop-in replacement, all launch scripts and programs follow the same naming convention. This allows compatibility with existing scripts and programs. Anything looking for "mysql" will end up using

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Ben Koenig
It was referring to MariaDB. Since MariaDB functions as a drop-in replacement, all launch scripts and programs follow the same naming convention. This allows compatibility with existing scripts and programs. Anything looking for "mysql" will end up using MariaDB with minimal differences. In

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/24/18 2:37 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 12/24/18 7:53 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: I've run a web server internally for years. I've always started by following whatever directions the distro provides for Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Heeding the warning that not all Slackware info on the Internet is

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread King Beowulf
On 12/24/18 7:53 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > I've run a web server internally for years. I've always started by > following whatever directions the distro provides for Apache, MySQL, and > PHP. Heeding the warning that not all Slackware info on the Internet is > completely accurate, before I start

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/24/18 1:14 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: http://docs.slackware.com/ http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:databases:install_mariadb_on_slackware A lot of documention is also out of date given how long slackware has been around, so there has been an effort to collect everything on docs.slackware.com.

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/24/18 8:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Also, while I've always used MySQL, I'm aware of MariaDB and wonder about starting out with it instead of MySQL. Dick,   MariaDB, I believe, is an open source fork of MySQL. Yes. From the MySQL Wikipedia

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

2018-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Also, while I've always used MySQL, I'm aware of MariaDB and wonder about starting out with it instead of MySQL. Dick, MariaDB, I believe, is an open source fork of MySQL. Because I've used only PostgreSQL and Sqlite I don't know the back story on