It wasn’t exactly trivial installing and configuring Apache 2 on FreeBSD. Much of the configuration had to be done manually, which depending on your point-of-view is good or bad. This describes how I went about getting Apache 2 with SSL support up and running on FreeBSD 6. I did this on 6.2 but it should equally apply to 6.x. (more…)
MySQL is a very popular relational database. It can be used by many different applications and thankfully the installation procedure is a snap. For this tutorial we will be compiling MySQL 5.0.45 from ports with some custom options. I did this on FreeBSD 6.2 release but it should work on FreeBSD 6.3 and 6.x. (more…)
Firstly let me just say that I had quite a few problem with Lighttp (aka Lighty), and some of them related to PHP. However, I now have Lighty, PHP, and MySQL playing nicely and… it’s fast! This was tested with: Lighty 1.4.18 and PHP 5.2.3_1 on FreeBSD 6.2. (more…)
I have recently had a hard time getting FreeBSD to ‘play ball’ by sharing it’s resources via AFP. I have compiled this guide to help others through the traumatic experience. I was using FreeBSD 6.2 release and Netatalk 2.0.3 from ports. Though I have heard it works on 6.1 and 6.3. (more…)