[FX.php List] Economical Mac Server setup

[John Funk]

Good to know "make it simple stupid" still prevails.

For this customer they do not want to host outside of their building, it is
a service only used inside the building. (for now)

This is my way of getting their "buy in" to FM/PHP/FX and build from there.

I will probably go with the g5 for now with non server OS.

Thanks for the 50 cents.

John


On 2/10/09 12:16 PM, "Troy Meyers" <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com> wrote:

> John,
> 
> This may only be worth 2 cents.
> 
> I like Mac Minis. Others may say they are unreliable, but I think that was an
> issue with the hard drive in early models, and I haven't experienced that at
> all, and they are so inexpensive new that a used machine is only a bit
> cheaper. For quite a while we used one Mini as the FM server, WPE, and Apache
> machine. We are currently using two of them, one as the FM server (advanced)
> and the other as the WPE+Apache. We doubled because our site is getting much
> more popular. Both are 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duos with 1 GB RAM. Neither have
> MacOS X Server -- nope, they are just consumer machines running Leopard. They
> work great. I've used them since FileMaker Server 8, but we are currently on
> 9, and are testing 10 on a spare.
> 
> -Troy
> 
>> I am setting up a economical fm/web server for my client.
>> 
>> I have been trying to get an old Dell Windows 2000 server set up for FM
>> Server 8 advance and iis to host FM files and FX/PHP. Among some other
>> headaches was the PHP install. I am not novice when it comes to PCs,
>> servers, Macs etc. and this process was the most frustrating setup I
>> have ever come across.
>> 
>> I gave up.
>> 
>> I am going to buy a used Mac to host Apache FX/ PHP and FMSA. I know
>> there is a min configuration for FMSA but is there a min config for
>> Apache / PHP on OSx? There will be only a hand full of users logged on
>> from FM Clients and 1 or 2 web clients.
>> 
>> Any 2 cents is appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> John Funk
> 
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