Best environment

weblivzweblivz
in Installation
I was considering installing on my Windows 2008 environment but given a lot of the instructions & discussions in the set up seem to target a unix/linux environment i wonder whether there would be less friction if i want with one of those?

Would anyone suggest a preferred OS for installation ? Latest Ubuntu, Debian or something?

If it works cross platform with few issues that would make a decision easier but in beta often easier to go with what everyone else is using.

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  • jordancjordanc
    @weblivz Definitely a linux/apache/php/mysql environment. It's possible to run in IIS but it's a huge headache (well, for me at least) because the software is designed with apache in mind.
    A lot of the php we use is close to bleeding edge, you're better off with a distro that has recent packages in it. We run identi.ca and 40k+ status.net hosted sites on Ubuntu machines.
    Anything should work, but it's a pain to get recent php packages in CentOS/RHEL for example and there are PCRE bugs in CentOS/RHEL that need some special work arounds.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc thanks for all your messages. I will go with lamp using Ubuntu - not my usual combo but if it makes things easier happy to learn - just short on time hence wanting the shortest path. I'll also get the latest php stable release.
  • jordancjordanc
    @weblivz PHP from the standard Ubuntu repos is fine, it's just for distros like RHEL/CentOS that it becomes an issue.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc ah great. Hope to get it running on a local VM today.

    Do you know of any examples of it running on AWS? Hoping i can push it to the same environment setup i have locally.
  • jordancjordanc
    @weblivz We run our dev and test servers on AWS EC2 ubuntu machines, still havn't tried out the Amazon RDS, but I believe we're planning to test it out next week.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc great - that's good enough evidence for me :=) Depending on what comes up may try rds at the weekend.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc just on that point - is there any local session or local storage stuff i need to think about for statusnet on aws is scaling on ec2? I'd assume yes but if you have doco on it, that would be neat.
  • jordancjordanc
    @weblivz Well identi.ca started on ec2 until it's i/o requirements outgrew EC2 and we moved it to dedicated servers.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc is it best woth 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu. I'm almost there with 64 bit but just wanted to check just in case.
  • weblivzweblivz
    @jordanc yay- love it. Installation complete and all working. Few bits to look into but in general readme was spot on - and i've not used Ubuntu before nor LAMP (use Windows + .Net). Thanks!
  • jordancjordanc
    @weblivz we use 64bit.
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