Installing Suse Linux 8.2 for hosting PHP/MySQL on a LAN

From: Jonathan Thorsvik (jon_at_thorsvik.com)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: 27 Aug 2003 13:28:06 -0700

Hi, I currently have a Win98SE machine hosting a website like thing
(HTML based database GUI) on my LAN. My LAN network is currently not
connected to the internet so it is just for local users. I have heard
that Linux is much better then Windows for web hosts so I would like
to switch my web host over to linux. Currently the web host is
running Apache with PHP/MySQL. For now that is good but when I setup
the linux host I would like to put the MySQL server on a second
machine. The web host does not see a high volume of users maybe 5~10
at the most, and all are on the 100M/bit LAN. I have downloaded all
the Suse 8.2 files to one of the machines on the network and shared
them so all the other users can view them: \\JONATHAN\SUSE8\ (yes
thats my computer). Once I have backed up all the files from the
current web host to my pc how would I go about setting up Linux? I
also have the Suse 8.2 live-eval iso image
(SuSE-8.2-LiveEval-i386-Int-RC2.iso) on my harddisk and on cd if its
neaded. I have no clue how to get this going... :-( Any help would
be great. Maybe a HowTo or Guide What ever is available. Thanx for
taking the time to read this. :-)

Jonathan Thorsvik,

P.S. the network has some WinXP computers on it (does that matter?).

www.thorsvik.com is just my personal website not linked to this
project.

Current Win98SE web host:
Pentium Pro 200MHZ
256MB RAM
4GB X2 Maxtor IDE harddisks (one for backup)
2GB SCSI harddisk with all php, HTML, images...

Second PC maybe for MySQL:
AMD K-6 200MHZ
64MB RAM
6GB Maxtor IDE harddisk
3GB Seagate IDE harddisk (maybe it could hold the MySQL databases?)

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