[olug] LAMP PostNuke PHPNuke PHPix (long)

[Nate Rotschafer]

I do use postnuke on the UNO ACM page at acm.geniussystems.net (down for 24 
hours due to my domain expiring...oppps).  if you have specific questions 
about it or it's features or modules let me know...

Nate




>From: Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: olug at olug.org
>To: olug at olug.org
>Subject: [olug] LAMP PostNuke PHPNuke PHPix (long)
>Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:08:40 -0800 (PST)
>
>Here is my situation.  I want to run a webserver for my family.  I want
>weblogging to announce important family information like birthdays,
>gatherings, births, deaths, etc..  I also want to have a picture
>collection so that family members can send me their pictures and I can
>add them to the website.
>
>Last night I installed Debian Sid with AMP (Apache 1.3, MySql, Php4).
>
>I also installed phpix which will take images in a directory and
>autogenerate thumbs, medium pics, etc automagically.  Does anybody have
>any other reccommendations for PHP picture album backends?  I looked at
>quite a few of them but this one looked the best to me.
>
>I plan on putting the pictures on my internal fileserver then doing a
>nightly rsync to the external webserver.  Burchell wrote a perl script
>that helps me take the huge digital cam images and convert them to
>800x600 for web display.  PHPix will handle the rest when requested.
>
>I installed PHPNuke since I saw that olug.org was using it.  Brian, how
>easy is it to keep up on the security issues of olug.org?  I can afford
>about 1-2 hours per week maintaining the website.  Is Postnuke any
>better security wise or feature wise?  Any Olug people running
>postnuke?
>
>The problem is that I don't know much about the security of these
>things.  Security will win out over good looks most of the time
>especially if it means I can spend more time adding content and less
>time fixing security issues.
>
>This will be a very low traffic website (2-3 hits/day) for legitimate
>purposes.  I'm not concerned about performance as much as security.
>What settings in php and mysql should I be looking for to maximize
>security.  I can work on performance when I'm more comfortable with the
>system.
>
>I know performance will be an issue eventually.  This is kind of just a
>test run.  The webserver is a p166 w/16MB Ram and 1.8GB HD.  The nice
>thing is that I can back the whole damn thing up easily on my
>fileserver.
>
>The webserver is not external right now since it is much easier to do
>testing on it when it is connected to the same 100Mbit switch as my
>desktop.  I really want to make sure it is secure and working before
>opening it up to the world.
>
>If this works, I will start another website for my mothers side, wifes
>side, and any other family members (not free of course).
>
>Is there any suggestions on any other programs I should be running?  I
>only plan on having ssh and http open to the outside world.  It'll
>probably run djb's dnscache for internal use only.  Does rsync have an
>external port?
>
>Well that's enough for now.  Please suggest other programs that may
>help me out.
>
>Eric
>
>
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