[PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Dec 25 01:17:45 UTC 2018


On 12/24/18 5:09 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 12/24/18 2:41 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 12/24/18 2:37 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>>> On 12/24/18 7:53 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>>> I've run a web server internally for years. I've always started by
>>>> following whatever directions the distro provides for Apache, MySQL, and
>>>> PHP. H
> ---snip---
> tps://docs.slackware.com/howtos:network_services:setup_apache_php_mysql
>>> just replace "MySQL" with "MariaDB".
>> Okay.
>>
>> So during the installation, when there was an option for mysqld, was
>> that MySQL or MariaDB?
>>
> There is no MySQL. It's dead, deceased, kaput, pining for the fjords.
>
> The name of the project changed, not the underlying filenames and
> configuration. Thus, you can usually just copy over the configuration
> files from a MySQL install as-is. In Slackware,
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld
>
> fires up a MariaDB database instance.
>
> https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:databases:install_mariadb_on_slackware
>
> This is a bit thin but covers the bare bones basics.

Thanks. I'll pursue this once I get the other parts of LAMP working.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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