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Your Opinions on New Server Setup

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:49 pm
by seodevhead
Hey guys,

I'm soon to be launching a new website that I have been working on for the past couple years. I am getting a new dedicated server for this website and want to ask a few questions before getting one configured to my liking:

1) Should I install Apache 2.x.xx as opposed to Apache 1.3.xx? Up till now, I have only worked and developed on Apache 1.3.xx, but if I'm going to need to upgrade at some point, my as well do it now before I launch the site to the public. Problem is, I have many many rewrites at the configuration file level, and I am not sure what the compatibility is for my rewrites is going from 1.3.xx to 2.x.xx. Anyone know or have advice?

2) I have developed this website in PHP 5, so I'm good with PHP... but I developed the site with MySQL 4.1. I would like to upgrade to MySQL 5 before I go live to the public, but again, not sure if there would be any fallout with my code. The only thing I can think of off hand is that I DO NOT use the mysqli extension. I use the standard mysql extension when calling my database. But I am assuming I can disable mysqli and use the plain old mysql extension with MySQL 5. Anyone know?

3) I put all my mod_rewrite rules in the httpd.conf file. Since this will be a managed dedicated server (hosting company does the updates), if my hosting company updates Apache on my server, would I lose (or potentially lose) any modifications or additions I make to my httpd.conf file? Or do Apache updates not touch the httpd.conf file because of this?

Thanks so much for your help and opinions guys. I value it greatly!

upgrade to mysql 5 and apache 2

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:53 pm
by yacahuma
I think you should upgrade to mysql 5. mysql 5 has store procedure that you may want to use in the future. I will also use apache 2. Apache 2 has been out for a while and I dont think there is any reason to keep using 1.3

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:59 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I'd pull out the rewrite rules into an .htaccess file, just to be safe.

I'd also vote for MySQL 5 and Apache2, since they're both fairly stable and well tested at this point. No sense in upgrading while live!