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OK, Dreamveawe seems to achive overall support. Let me throw a stone. What I don't like about dreamveawer.When doing ASP pages I finally gave up attempts to use Dreamveawer asp features. It's easier to learn ASP then to figure out how to use them in Dreamveaver. So I do it old good manual way. (Luckily, there are not so many options for PHP, so did not waist time trying to use them).Not sure about the latest Dreamveawer, but the one I have (Do not remember the release, the last one wich did not require activation) does not handle css properly (One more reason why I started to use notepad).FTP feature of Dreamveawer is stripped off. You could not set it to view hidden files like .htaccess for example.Yes, it's feature rich, but it takes time to learn how to use it so it does things for you. And in many cases it's easier to learn how to do the same things yourself

Agree, if you want to keep you password and user name secure, you shoud use ssh. Telnet sends all the information unencrypted and is a big hole for peepers. As for the ssh client for Windows, it's available at ssh home site. Other third party options are available as well. I'm using SecureCRT.

As probably many did, I have started my first site in Front Page. Was wery proud of it for a couple of month untill realised that it's just junk. Moved to DreamVeawer later on and still am using it. FireWorks for graphics. But lately I've cought myself more and more using notepad (Notepad++). Somehow it's easier for me to work with PHP code in simple, or better colored text.

Do they require something for exchange for their service? I mean for example, banner or text link or something else? And what if the site does not have IP address?

So, reinstall the whole stuff from scratch. Yes, and not once, but still with the same failure result when trying to enable logical RAID5 drives. Chill out guys, I’m not going to tell the whole story from the very beginning, though there were quite a few rakes that I’ve luckily avoided during my first install, but did not miss later on. Just the solution. Turned out to be not soft but hard related. One of the physical SCSI hard drives failed. Took some efforts to figure out which of twelve. So, finally I have ended up removing two and replacing one. Besides I’ve changed NetRAID configuration to 1xRAID1 and 1xRAID5 logical drives. After this I did the base system installation already by heart. As to the final system, I’ve done it a little bit different. Instead of installing prepackaged Apache+MySQL+PHP+GD bundle, I got the latest releases of each and did three steps configure – make – make install for each. A bit time consuming and no automatic updates. But it will serve for awhile.Seems as if that’s the end. Unless I recall something worth telling

So, the next task is to enable remaining two RAID5 logical drives. And I want do it from the comfort of my chair. OKOn the Debian box open SU terminal and do#ssh user@192.xxx.xxx.xxx // to connect to the serverNo problems, just supply the password and you are in. Now, to partition the disk you have to have admin rights. Should not be difficult.$su //Switch to super user mode, worked fine on my Debian machineResponce is ...Well, no responce and no SU. OK, once more... No responce, no SU. RTF1300pagesM. Found the reason on page 428. Turns out that in FreeBSD to be able to switch to SU mode, the user must belong to WHEEL group. Fine. Now, How to assign my User to the WHEEL group? Turns out 1300 pages are not enough to explain. Read the f****g pw manual page. Took some time to make up sense out of 100 or so switches options and what else and several runs to the server to log-on as root to came up with the command I need. (See some of you smiling).#pw usershow -n User -P //to see human description of User's properties#pw usermod -n User -g wheel //To assign Users to wheel groupGood, done. Back to my chair and back to configuring the drives. Handbook comes handy. Chapter 16.3 at page 536 lists three options to add disks, one for dummies, and two for users. Who am I? Well, after all I've gone through definitely not a dummy. So, go to section 16.3.2.2 "Dedicated" and look at method 1. Easy, I can do it. Strictly follow the steps... No luck. OK, may be method 2 is better. Try it. No luck. Well, probably I've overestimated myself a little bit. Go back to Section 16.3.1 "Using sysinstall" (For dummies). Follow the guidance to configure both my RAID5 drives, commit changes, reboot.What a surprise! After spitting at me quite a few error messages, my so well behaving so far server went into single user mode. After 20 min of trying to make use of it, I've decided that 30 min installation is not that bad after all. So, one more installation. Though next time...

So, what did I finally get after all the above? Here is the layout.Decommissioned HP NetServer LH3000U, with two P4/1.2GHz processors, RAM 4GB, NetRaid SCSI controller and 12 SCSI physical hard drives configured into three logical drives, 5GB RAID1 and 2x90GB RAID5 drives, connected to a small test w2K3 LAN. (You might guess that I have thrown in quite a few of available resources scattered around in a Network Center). The server has been happy with FreeBSD6.0.The Apache2.4+MySQL+PHP4+GD bundle has been installed, slightly configured and properly serving test pages. X server has been running serving as Gnome so KDE. SSHD has been running giving me an option to access the server from a remote workstation. The only tail to cut was those 2x90GB RAID5 logical drives. As one might guess I have installed everything on one 5GB RAID1 logical drive planning to enable other two later on.That’s where the problems started…

^^^ AgreeGood addon. Thanks. Though if you want the latest version of Apache+mysql+php+perl+gd +Whatever else you want Bundle, you will have to download and install it manually. The shadow site of this kind of installation is that you would not be able to update it using BSD pkg system.

Yes, decommissioned HP Netserver LH3000u. (Huge box btw) I have mentioned it somewhere at the beginning As you might have guessed, it's not the end of the whole story. What would be better, continue it here or start a new thread?

Well, the story of success seems to become a little bit boring. So, to wrap it up, a final touch. When the feet started to feel mileage of running between server and workstation, I’ve configured ssh (Secure Shell). Men, I was impressed. Add terminal Server Client for W2K3, and you can access W2K3 and BSD servers from the comfort of your armchair… Cool!Next time I'll start discovering the rakes....

I better keep it at my desk to impress whoever comes (the boss especially)

So, where did I leave?Yeah, about happy end... Not yet. I have to use the server for something. So, let's add some useful stuff and do a test web server. Easy.#pkg_add -r mcAnd you have Midnight commander.#mcWorks, great...#pkg_add -r mysqlA little bit of humming, installed.#cd /user/local/bin#mysql_safe --user=mysql &No error messages#ps -ax | grep mysqlLists mysql daemon running. Great#mysqladmin -u root statusStatistics displayed. CoolLet's do Apache#pkg_add -r apache2Brake for a smoke, done#/usr/local/sbin/httpd -k startNo error messages. Good#ps -ax | grep httpdapache daemon running. Go to my Debian machine, open Mozilla, type in URL192.xxx.xxx.xxxGet this lovely Apache feather. Think that I'm probably not that bad in BSDDo PHP. Go back to the server...#pkg_add -r phpYees, done#vi test.phpmake this little test file<?php phpinfo()?>Save it to the apache document root. Go back to my Mozilla, type in192.xxx.xxx.xxx/test.phpHere you are. I'm php info page, I'm here....One might say that it just could not be that easy and fast. Yeah, but who cares about those little shadows during the happy hour?Well, enough for today.Still to be continued if you do not mind...

May be later on. When the saga is over Yeah, know it's foollish. But sometimes could not resist doing foollish things

A couple more jokes...Did you ever know, that one Therapist equals to 1024 Gigapists and to 1048576 MegapistsWhat is the difference between a user and a programmer?The user thinks, that there are 1000KB in 1MB.The programmer is sure that there are 1024 m in one Km

OK, show goes on... I went to https://www.freebsd.org/, spent some time looking around, reading to make sure I know what I'm doing. Though quite a few questions, it did not look too scary, so I went to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and grabbed all three disk images (ISOs ) of FreeBSD6.0, which was the latest at that time. One for basic system and network install, and two for complete distribution (Doesn't it seem, well... a little bit too light-weight comparing to 14 CDs Debian distribution?) just in case network install does not work. Burned CDs on my Debian machine. Then I have opened FreeBSD handbook as a single file from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, saved it to the local disk and hit Print. (This has been the first rake I've stepped on. For those who wonders how rakes are related to the subject you might wish to check up the thread at http://forums.xisto.com/topic/88591-topic/?findpost=1064337135 for explanation. The HandBook turned out to be 1300 plus pages, took several hours to print out on an HP DeskJet, has eaten month's supply of paper and cartridges). Everything seems ready to commence the installation. Popped Network Install CD into the retired guy, reboot. Carefully reading prompts, suggestions and handbook and mainly accepting defaults has completed base system installation in about twenty min, another 15 min for initial configuration like creating a user. Another reboot and here you are, welcome, please login. Too good to be true. Nevertheless, I'm logging-in as root. It works. Running some basic commands like ls and ps, works. What about something more complicated? Starting GNOME? Works. KDE? Works, got this beautifull masterpice of GUI design. Unbelievable. Happy end? Well, I'll tell you next time