Re: Where to start: hardware and reading material

Bruce Clement <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Nevyn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7 October 2011 15:39, Jaco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > * Install & make use of WebMin to ease the initial pains (i.e. getting
> some
> > stuff done while you're learning the ropes) - but don't fear the CLI
> (`man`
> > is your friend
>
>
> *snigger* isn't the act of setting up Apache and the like a bit of a pain
> especially for a beginner?
>

Webmin comes with miniserv.pl, its own web server & while it can use it
doesn't need Apache.

http://www.webmin.com/apache.html "WARNING : Running Webmin under Apache is
almost never necessary unless you are on a very low-memory system that is
already running Apache. Doing so will make Webmin slower, break some
features and force use of the old ugly UI."

It also means that if you break Apache you'd also break Webmin making
recovery harder. I'd suggest very stongly that you *don't* run webmin under
Apache unless you have to and not until you've had a lot of experience using
it to configure systems.

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