[Part Two]Building a Server with DesktopBSD 1.6(Database Server)

liduan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:40:05 +0000

There are a whole lot of Database platform in the IT world. For instance , Oracle, Firebird, Sybase etc. I only choose two of them in this tutorial, they are mysql and postgresql. Mysql is a open source project. It is a most popular database component in the personal hosting service. It can work very well with PHP together. And, postgresql is also a open source project base on the BSD license. It’s an object-relational database system. compare with mysql. postgresql is more powerful feature like Views, Triggers, and Unions. on the other hand, the speed of mysql is faster than postgresql.

The ports system also will be used in building database. make sure your ports system has been update. and versions of mysql and postgresql need be latest.

1. MySQL 5.1
First of all, changing to root user by command “su”.

1.1 Installation MySQL5.1
Then, changing to mysql ports directory to install mysql 5.1.

$ cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server/
$ make install clean

You can use following option.

WITH_CHARSET=charset    Define the primary built-in charset (latin1).
WITH_XCHARSET=list         Define other built-in charsets (may be 'all').
WITH_COLLATION=collate  Define default collation (latin1_swedish_ci).
WITH_OPENSSL=yes          Enable secure connections.
WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes        Use the linuxthreads pthread library.
WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH=yes Use process scope threads
(try it if you use libpthread).
BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes             Enable compiler optimizations
(use it if you need speed).
BUILD_STATIC=yes                    Build a static version of mysqld.
(use it if you need even more speed).
WITH_NDB=yes                          Enable support for NDB Cluster.

For example:

$ make WITH_CHARSET=utf8 WITH_XCHARSET=all
WITH_COLLATION=utf8_unicode_ci BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes
install clean

1.2 Start MySQL server
after a long time of waiting.you could start mysql server. add a line in the "/etc/rc.conf"

mysql_enable="YES"

and. using command start server.

$ /usr/local/ect/rc.d/mysql-server start

1.3 Configuration MySQL
set the password of root user.

$ mysql -u root -p

2. PostgreSQL
Keeping you currently in the root account.

2.1 Installation PostgreSQL 8.3

$ /usr/ports/databases/postgresql83-server
make config install clean

The you can choose model that you need in the Configuration interface.

add several new lines after finish installation in the file of "/etc/rc.conf"

postgresql_enable="YES"
postgresql_data="/var/db/pgsql/data"  # you can change to your location
postgresql_flags="-w -s -m fast"
postgresql_initdb_flags="--encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C"
postgresql_class="default"

2.2 Configuration
make sure you have /var/db/pgsql/data directory in your location, if you do not have this directory. you need creat it by root account and change owner to user "pgsql" by command "chown". such as:

mkdir /var/db/pgsql/data
chown pgsql:pgsql /var/db/pgsql/data

A simple database should be created by user "pgsql".

$ su pgsql   // using the root account to do this
$ initdb -D /var/db/pgsql/data
$ createuser -p  //change the password of database user "pgsql".

Last but not least, start server:

$  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql start

Next, we will build PHP development environment with Apache2 in the DesktopBSD.
To be continued...

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[Part One]Building a Server with DesktopBSD 1.6(introduction)

liduan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:57:47 +0000

Why is DesktopBSD neither freeBSD or Linux. Firstly, DesktopBSD 1.6 is base on Freebsd 6.3. It is distribution ofFreeBSD. And Linux is same pretty good, but BSD is more better in old machine such as PIII cpu, 128M memory, Linux maybe can run in these kind of computers, but Linux can’t run other applications like postgresql.

And, DesktopBSD have pretty good graphical interface environment with KDE. that should save time of configuration of GUI. DesktopBSD also uses the ports system. we can easily install any software.

I plan to build a server support following service:

1. Databases service such as MySQL, PostgreSQL.
2. PHP development environment with Apache2
3. Files share service like NFS and Samba.
4. JSP/Java development environment with Tomcat6
5. FTP server
6. DNS and Mail server.

I use a very old machine DELL *D400*.

Before building the server, we need install a DesktopBSD system into a machine. DesktopBSD support a graphical installer, it allow to partition disks and create users. It is easy to use. Some screenshots show how to install a DesktopBSD in here.

After installation, we will to refresh the ports-tree. cvsup or portsnap could be used. I like use cvsup. In the DesktopBSD or Freebsd 6.3. there is a change for cvsup. command is csup not cvsup.
su cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /etc/ports-supfile

makes you into root user, and change the configuration of cvsupedit file
ee /etc/ports-supfile

change this line
*default host= CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
To:
*default host= cvsup5.FreeBSD.org

Back to command line, update teh prots-tree
csup -g -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex

Next, we will build databases service in the DesktopBSD.
To be continued…

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[Part Two]Building a Server with DesktopBSD 1.6(Database Server)

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