Digital Media Minute: Installing Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4 | Linux Today

Digital Media Minute: Installing Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 6, 2006

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“This how-to is aimed at getting you started with Ruby on Rails
installed on the Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution using the
Lighttpd web server and mySQL database server.

“Why use this combination of Fedora Core 4 (FC4) and Lighttpd?
Well, lets start with FC4. Fedora aims to be a complete,
general-purpose open source operating system that is designed to be
easily installed and configured with a simple graphical installer.
Packages and their dependencies can be easily downloaded and
installed with the yum utility. FC is updated regularly with new
releases of Fedora come out every six months…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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