Thanks for the words of wizdom and encouragement guys. I appreciate it. I just needed to rant to a bunch of geeks that can empathize with the woes of setting up a good linux installation (server).
It's actually kinda funny in a way. between all the google searches, newsgroup searches, forum searches, and config modifications I did Friday, Sat, and Sun, Sunday night I actually had to walk away from it a bit (when i made that post) because my fingers wouldn't move anymore for me (slight carpel-tunnel).
Sarge 3.1 I believe. I just setup this server about 6-7 months back initially. It's running on a Duel P3 850 box with 2 40 gig on a raid (1 gig ram). I initally set it up to get off windows. I loved the packaging system so much that I setup another server (Single P3 650) just for file storage.
Since then have aquired a Linux full on (2 U) Dual P3 800 with 4 chetah 36gig drives (10000 rpm). Haven't decided what I want to do with that yet...
I still have 2 Windows2000 server boxes down there (ones an old e-machine, another just a P2 450). One was the web server (haven't touched it since I switched over to the debian setup, its still down there serving pages, just have the router not routing too it currently), and the other is the email server (IMail, bleh).
As soon as I can get this SSL stuff taken care of, I want to move email over to a linux machine... But that probably means another 3 years of configurations....
I must say, I really like PHPNuke for the most part. The modules system is really well done in my opinion. Problem is that so many that have wrote modules for it, let their sites die off, which means broken links (basically what happened to the blitz showcase). In most cases I figure I could just write my own module, however I am not good at all with web design (I can do it, do code well, but when it comes to something cosmetic with CSS style sheets, I am a complete moron).
The hard part is finding support for phpnuke. Their site doesnt host forums, so you have to go to a 3rd party site (and they have tons, one for each country it almost seems like). I want to search a general support database, not go to 50 different sites doing searches and trying fixes... Oh well, nature of the beast I guess.
Just hunt around a bit is the best advice I can give...
It's actually kinda funny in a way. between all the google searches, newsgroup searches, forum searches, and config modifications I did Friday, Sat, and Sun, Sunday night I actually had to walk away from it a bit (when i made that post) because my fingers wouldn't move anymore for me (slight carpel-tunnel).
What version of Debian is it? I get the impression that your Debian servers have been around for a while.
Sarge 3.1 I believe. I just setup this server about 6-7 months back initially. It's running on a Duel P3 850 box with 2 40 gig on a raid (1 gig ram). I initally set it up to get off windows. I loved the packaging system so much that I setup another server (Single P3 650) just for file storage.
Since then have aquired a Linux full on (2 U) Dual P3 800 with 4 chetah 36gig drives (10000 rpm). Haven't decided what I want to do with that yet...
I still have 2 Windows2000 server boxes down there (ones an old e-machine, another just a P2 450). One was the web server (haven't touched it since I switched over to the debian setup, its still down there serving pages, just have the router not routing too it currently), and the other is the email server (IMail, bleh).
As soon as I can get this SSL stuff taken care of, I want to move email over to a linux machine... But that probably means another 3 years of configurations....
I must say, I really like PHPNuke for the most part. The modules system is really well done in my opinion. Problem is that so many that have wrote modules for it, let their sites die off, which means broken links (basically what happened to the blitz showcase). In most cases I figure I could just write my own module, however I am not good at all with web design (I can do it, do code well, but when it comes to something cosmetic with CSS style sheets, I am a complete moron).
The hard part is finding support for phpnuke. Their site doesnt host forums, so you have to go to a 3rd party site (and they have tons, one for each country it almost seems like). I want to search a general support database, not go to 50 different sites doing searches and trying fixes... Oh well, nature of the beast I guess.