 Take our Quick Survey and enter a drawing for a chance to win a $100 VISA Gift Card.2. Prerequisites2.1. Generalflex 2.54 bison 1.28 autoconf 2.52 automake 1.4 libtool 1.4 yacc 91.7.30 freetype2-devel re2c
To be continued All major distributions should include this general prerequisites.
2.2. OpenSSL2.2.1. What is OpenSSL| | The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured,
and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. The project is managed by a
worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit
and its related documentation. OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.
The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free
to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions. From authors points of view, its the basic to build a secure Unix-Server with Opensource Software, its needed
for all major products like mod_ssl, OpenSSH and lot of other stuff that provides encrypted Data-processing | | | --www.openssl.org | |
OpenSSL provides the libraries and include-files needed be the products mentioned above and also provides
a Application to build Server and client-Certificates. 2.2.3. Building and installingcd /usr/local
tar -xvzf openssl-0.9.7.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.7
./config shared
make
make test
make install
echo "/usr/local/ssl/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig |
 | Select your CPU to improve speed |
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| | By default the Makefile generates code for the i486 CPU. You can change this by editing the
Makefile after running config shared.
Search for -m486 and replace it i.e with -march=athlon |
2.3. GNU Database System2.3.1. What is gdbm| | GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing. It works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines. | | | --www.gnu.org/software/gdbm | |
The GNU dbm is a very important application used by almost every distribution. So it is installed by default
on all distributions I tested. In all probability the needed header files which are mandatory to build Apache with mod_rewrite and PHP are
not installed by default. Please consult your distributions CD/DVD and install
the devel package (The version can vary):
rpm -i gdbm-devel-1.8.0-546 |
This procedure is verified for SuSE and Redhat. Please confirm for other RPM based
systems like Mandrake. Debian will follow as soon as possible. Users of Debian bases systems can install gdbm as follow: apt-get install libgdbmg1-dev |
2.3.2. Building and installing by yourselfIn the unlikely case that your distribution does not contain gdbm here the
instructions how to build it. ./configure
make
make install
ldconfig |
2.4. MySQL2.4.1. What is MySQLMySQL is a very fast, powerful and very nice to handle Database. Especially for webapplications where most access is read and few write,
MySQL is the first choice. The newest
Version is also transaction-capable. If you plan a Webapplication,
that writes a lot of Data into the DB, maybe PostgreSQL is
better suited for your project see Section 6.2.4 for installation hints You need the C-API from MySQL for compiling PHP if you
wish MySQL-Support in PHP. It is also needed if you want to use
mod_authmysql, See Section 4.3 for more information 2.4.3. Building and installingcd /usr/local
tar -xvzf mysql-3.23.55.tar.gz
cd mysql-3.23.55
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--enable-assembler \
--with-innodb \
--without-debug
make
make install
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db
echo /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig |
For security-improvement add a MySQL-user on your system e.g. »mysql«. chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var |
You may wish to start MySQL automatically at boottime, copy /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server
to /etc/init.d/ (or wherever your rc-script are located) and create the corresponding symbolic
link in the runlevel directories.
cp /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server /etc/init.d/
ln -s /etc/init.d/mysql.server /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S20mysql
ln -s /etc/init.d/mysql.server /etc/init.d/rc3.d/K20mysql |
2.4.4. Securing MySQLThis part is only optional, and describes how to bind the MySQL daemon to the localhost IP I suggest to just bind MySQL to the loopback-interface 127.0.0.1. This makes sure nobody can connect to your
MySQL-Daemon via the network. But of course it only makes sense if MySQL runs on the same box like the webserver. edit /etc/init.d/mysql.server and edit line 107 as following: Original line: $bindir/safe_mysqld --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file& |
Changed line: $bindir/safe_mysqld --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file \
--bind-address=127.0.0.1&  |
- Here you can define to which interface MySQL should be bound
Alternatively you can completely disable the networking functionality of MySQL. $bindir/safe_mysqld --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file \
--skip-networking & |
2.5. Building mm2.5.1. What is mm| | The MM library is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between forked
(and this way strongly related) processes under Unix platforms. On the first layer it hides all platform dependent
implementation details (allocation and locking) when dealing with shared memory segments and on the second layer
it provides a high-level malloc(3)-style API for a convenient and well known way to work with data-structures
inside those shared memory segments. | | | --www.engelschall.com | |
It is a common library that enables Unix programmers to simplify shm (Shared memory)
accesses. It is used by many products, e.g.
PHP and mod_ssl 2.5.3. Building and installingcd /usr/local
tar -xvzf mm-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd mm-1.2.2
./configure
make
make test
make install
ldconfig |
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