Can I run Samba and phpMyAdmin on Solaris 10?

I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd like
to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100, but I need to replicate the
production hosting environment, which means the following apps are hard
requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and phpMyAdmin.

Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?

Thanks in advance.

quoting deko (Thu, 24 May 2007 08:26:17 -0700):
> production hosting environment, which means the following apps are
> hard requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and phpMyAdmin.
>
> Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?

It will take about 10 minutes with Blastwave.
Sun has a SAMP package.
PHP-5.2.2 compiles fine on S10, so that's an option too.

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On May 24, 11:26 am, "deko" wrote:
> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd like
> to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100, but I need to replicate the
> production hosting environment, which means the following apps are hard
> requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and phpMyAdmin.
>
> Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Nope, shouldn't be hard at all. The biggest pitfall you are likely to
see is the relative performance of a Sun Blade 100.

Have you considered the "CoolStack"?
http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/
http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=85
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/we...ect_Direction/

Also consider installing your stack in a zone for enhanced security,
granularity, and a host of other good features available to a zone.

deko wrote:
> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd like
> to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100, but I need to replicate the
> production hosting environment, which means the following apps are hard
> requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and phpMyAdmin.

> Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?

Most likely, it'll be quite straightforward.

Start by looking here:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/amp/

Many of the extra packages you'll need are available at blastwave.org or
sunfreeware.com.

Colin

deko wrote:
> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development.
> I'd like to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100, but I need

Don't do that, you'll get disappointed. Run Solaris on the same HW as
you run your current LAMP.

> to replicate the production hosting environment, which means the
> following apps are hard requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and
> phpMyAdmin.
>
> Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?

It's all on blastwave or you can use a Sun package called AMPS. Just
Google...

On 2007-05-24, deko wrote:
> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd like
> to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100,

I hope you're patient. The Blade 100 is pitifully slow.


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"KJ" wrote in message
news:1180022473.065220.128990-at-q66g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
> On May 24, 11:26 am, "deko" wrote:
>> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd
>> like
>> to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100, but I need to replicate
>> the
>> production hosting environment, which means the following apps are hard
>> requirements: Apache, MySql, PHP, SAMBA and phpMyAdmin.
>>
>> Will it be difficult to install these apps on Solaris 10?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Nope, shouldn't be hard at all. The biggest pitfall you are likely to
> see is the relative performance of a Sun Blade 100.
>
> Have you considered the "CoolStack"?
> http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/
> http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=85
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/we...ect_Direction/
>
> Also consider installing your stack in a zone for enhanced security,
> granularity, and a host of other good features available to a zone.

Thanks for the tip. CoolStack is the ticket.

As for performance, it's only for development/testing of a few PHP sites. I'm
more concerned with the speed of transferring data from my dev workstation (on a
GigE LAN) to the Blade (100Mg QFE) than I am with how fast the Blade serves
pages. I've got GigE NICs in all my Linux boxes - this speeds development
because transfers are quick. Perhaps I can trunk the 4 100Mg ports on the QFE?
If the Blade costs me development time, then I'm not sure what to do with it.
I've got 2 of these things... was hoping I could use them for testing and
re-purpose the existing boxes.

Huge wrote:
> On 2007-05-24, deko wrote:
>> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd like
>> to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100,
>
> I hope you're patient. The Blade 100 is pitifully slow.

It's not *THAT* bad! (as long as you have enough RAM)

> uname -a
SunOS 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

Running KDE, firefox2, thunderbird2 and a whole bunch of xterms

"Oscar del Rio" wrote in message
news:f36srv$cdj$1-at-news.mie...
> Huge wrote:
>> On 2007-05-24, deko wrote:
>>> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development. I'd
>>> like to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100,
>>
>> I hope you're patient. The Blade 100 is pitifully slow.
>
> It's not *THAT* bad! (as long as you have enough RAM)
>
> > uname -a
> SunOS 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
>
> Running KDE, firefox2, thunderbird2 and a whole bunch of xterms

I've got 768Mg RAM in the Blade.

I also have a QFE card in the Blade. I'm wondering if I can use Sun Trunking
1.3. Can I
trunk all 4 QFE ports to an unmanaged, consumer-grade GigE NetGear switch?

In article ,
"deko" wrote:

> "Oscar del Rio" wrote in message
> news:f36srv$cdj$1-at-news.mie...
> > Huge wrote:
> >> On 2007-05-24, deko wrote:
> >>> I've been using a cheap LAMP server in my sandbox for web development.
> >>> I'd
> >>> like to switch to 64-bit Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100,
> >>
> >> I hope you're patient. The Blade 100 is pitifully slow.
> >
> > It's not *THAT* bad! (as long as you have enough RAM)
> >
> > > uname -a
> > SunOS 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
> >
> > Running KDE, firefox2, thunderbird2 and a whole bunch of xterms
>
> I've got 768Mg RAM in the Blade.
>
> I also have a QFE card in the Blade. I'm wondering if I can use Sun Trunking
> 1.3. Can I trunk all 4 QFE ports to an unmanaged, consumer-grade GigE NetGear switch?

According to

http://www.sun.com/products/networki...king/index.xml
http://www.sun.com/products/networki.../trunkingmatri
x.pdf
http://www.sun.com/products-n-soluti...06-3416-10.pdf

Does your Netgear support 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(LACP)? I thought only larger routers did that, not the off-the-shelf
consumer stuff.

I think the quad ethernet card will work with SUN Trunking if you have a
suitable router.

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