Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

That's exactly what I do as well. Debian on both the server and on the
development machine.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Vincent Veyron <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:40:14 +0000 (UTC)
> " daniel.axtell" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Mon, 10/3/16, Vincent Veyron <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  Now all I need to do to get up and running is
> >  :
> >
> >  apt install
> >  apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-request-perl
> >  libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-apreq2 apache2.2-common
> >
> >
> >  and from then on :
> >
> >  apt upgrade
> >
> >
> > Thanks.  What version of Debian are you using? I have a Digital Ocean
> droplet running Ubuntu 16.04.1.
> >
>
> I use Debian stable, so whatever the current version is (8.5 now). I tried
> Ubuntu a while back and found they complicated things. Particularly for a
> server, I would suggest Debian instead (for that matter I've been perfectly
> content with my workstation running Debian stable, this way my development
> environnement matches my servers').
>
> >When I try the above, I get:
> > Package apache2.2-common is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
>
> Duh! my bad, this was taken from my install notes, which date from 2014;
> sorry about that.
>
> As Dominic wrote, I think you can do away with the apache2.X-common bit.
>
> > I gather that with virtual servers like the DigitalOcean droplets and
> Amazon EC2 instances, once you build everything from source it's easy to
> replicate the image, so maybe that's the next best thing.
>
> Depends on your use case. If you have to create multiple instances
> frequently, maybe so, although there are configuration tools as well
> (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt...).
>
> I'm too small for that, it's easier for me to just write a few basic
> commands like the one I posted, and my machines last a _long_ time. Also I
> work with bare metal, I haven't tested virtualized servers at all.
>
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