[Preston] linux server

[B McLellan]

Richard,

You can install the server components to a standard distribution with
a GUI. If you are new to Linux Ubuntu is probably a good distro to
start with as it has a lively support community. From a standard
ubuntu install just use the synaptic package manager to install
Apache, MySQL and PHP.
If you also want to avoid having to manually edit text config files
you will probably want to install Webmin too. This will allow you to
configure Apache etc, via a webpage.
Most people don't bother with the GUI on web server for performance
reasons but I've seen people ask this question a lot. The usual
response is along the lines of 'why bother, just get used to the
command line!' and I suspect at some point you will have to drop to a
terminal to configure certain things. But with more GUI-centric
distros like ubuntu you should be able to most things with the mouse.
Hope this helps.

Bob

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Richard McLellan
<richardmclellan at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Can someone help me out here?
> I am looking to put together a linux server as a web host test unit, but I
> prefer to use the GUI interface.  Is there a server version with a GUI
> already?  If someone can put together a CD like this I would be very
> grateful.
>
> Thank you.
> RM
>
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