DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Using DamnSmallLinux for a Server

If I was you I would install Xampp for linux. I installed it and it was very simple. It comes with Apache, PHP with Pear, Perl, MySQL, FTP, SSH just about anything you want to host your site. You can view more about it or download it at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html It has the following in it...

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Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, PHP 5.1.1 & 4.4.1 & PEAR + SQLite 2.8.9/2.8.14 + multibyte (mbstring) support, Perl 5.8.7, ProFTPD 1.2.10, phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a, GD 2.0.1, Freetype2 2.1.7, libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.7, gdbm 1.8.0, zlib 1.2.3, expat 1.2, Sablotron 1.0, libxml 2.4.26, Ming 0.2a, Webalizer 2.01, pdf class 009e, ncurses 5.8, mod_perl 2.0.1, FreeTDS 0.63, gettext 0.11.5, IMAP C-Client 2004e, OpenLDAP (client) 2.3.11, mcrypt 2.5.7, mhash 0.8.18, eAccelerator 0.9.3, cURL 7.13.1, libxslt 1.1.8, phpSQLiteAdmin 0.2, libapreq 2.06-dev, FPDF 1.53

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