Which Linux distribution do you use?

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Last Post: March 6, 2012   (RSS)

Re: [gversion] Which Linux distribution do you use?

By Jason - February 27, 2012

Hi Greg,

We actually use a Windows server locally. Your linux distrubitution probably isn't as important as the web server software you'll be running (LAMP, for example). As long as the server has all the minimum requirements for CMS Builder, you should be fine:
http://www.interactivetools.com/tour/requirements.php

Hope this helps
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Re: [gversion] Which Linux distribution do you use?

By Dave - March 6, 2012

We host with serverbeach.com and run RedHat. We don't always get to choose the servers our clients use so beyond having a linux server (of some kind) my preferences are mostly related to the configuration of the LAMP stack.

A few examples, I prefer when PHP runs as an Apache module instead of in CGI mode. Also nice when you have .htaccess files enabled so you can use those in any web dir, and I prefer it when PHP and FTP run as the same user, instead of running PHP as the nobody user which requires me to chmod files to 0777 if I want them to be writable to PHP.

My advice would probably be to stick to what you know best. What did you end up choosing?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Re: [Dave] Which Linux distribution do you use?

By gversion - March 6, 2012

Hi Dave,

All good tips, thanks very much for sharing them.

I actually ran with a Cloud server provided by Rackspace and chose Ubuntu as this seemed pretty popular.

Regards,
Greg