Re: [gentoo-server] Newbie deploying a gentoo server

[Benjamin Coles]

Luis,
	Great to see your interested in running Gentoo as a server, I've
included a url below that deals with securing Gentoo. I personally like
grsec which is a security patch for the current kernel. You can simply
emerge grsec-sources or even my favorite wolk-sources although you can
only compile wolk to be a server OR a desktop. As for the services
you've listed you can find all the docs on www.gentoo.org under the docs
section. Just to give you a rundown on what you're looking at, emerge
apache mod_php mod_ssl will give you apache/php/perl cgi is mostly perl.
You'll have ftp which you can choose from the list of services and is
rather easy to setup if you follow the docs. Mysql is kind of tricky but
emerge it and follow the post installation instructions and your on your
way. As for ASP and frontpage extensions... I've never been fond of
frontpage extensions, always posed a big security risk. I haven't worked
with ASP myself so maybe someone else can give you that information. You
can find the setup of frontpage extensions on forums.gentoo.org and you
pretty much cleared out most the things you would use on a server, but
what about email? Good Luck!

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml

Benjamin Coles
Gentoo Infrastructure

p.s. apache above is version 1

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:46, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I've been using gentoo as desktop OS since a year ago, but now I want to
> setup a server for proction use and I'm looking for some good info in
> how to do this. Any of you could recommends me some urls or something in
> order for me to understand how must I deploy all of this?
>
> I need apache, php, mysql, ftp, cgi, perl, asp, frontpage extensions...
>
> Any tips/documentation on how to do this on gentoo or even in a
> non-gentooish way?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Luis Miguel García
> Spain