[SLUG] Next Meeting: Tuesday 8th October

[Gavin Baker]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 12:37, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> All,
> 
> The landlord of the Cricketers has said that we can use his function room
> again.
> 
> There is no agenda as such. We will have the installation/configuration of
> Apache for the students (who will be doing the installing etc?), and the PHP
> talk by Ian that we did not get chance to hear last time.

Installing apache will take a full 2 minutes. apt-get install apache, or
rpm -Uvh /where/the/rpms/are/apache*. Even compiling and installing from
source is trivial.

Configuration on the other hand could take a long time, depending on
what we are wanting to demonstrate. Perhaps just basic things like
setting up php (and some other DSO's like mod_gzip/mod_perl?), telling
apache about executable content so it doesn't display scripts rather
than running them, and maybe virtual hosting.

Anything else interesting about apache that we would want to
explain/demonstrate?

We should make some kind of check list for these.

> Other than that it is open ended.
> 
> Can we try and sort out who is bringing the computer down? I am of the
> opinion that a base unit would be better than a Laptop. Phil has one
> available, but we would need to install Linux first which could take a while
> on a 166.

I will fetch one anyway, more the merrier i guess.


Regards,
Gav