Keep in mind that this guide grew out of a stack of notes. It's really just a place that I wanted to put the procedures that I personally use. The way I set stuff up may not work for you… in fact, it could be totally wrong!
Moreso, I am a minimalist at heart. My philosophy is "If I don't need it, I don't want it installed". I find that several of the normal LAMP applications that I install in this guide (such as Apache and PHP) will often be distributed in a binary package (RPM) with a lot of extra options built in. For this reason, I will sometimes choose to compile from source to keep things slim.
The servers I describe in this guide are pruned down, bare-bones installs. I have no test data to compare performance to standard installations (I'm too busy!), so please take this guide with a hefty dose of salt. If you don't like what I'm doing, by all means, install things with extra options, or from base RPMs, or whatever way you want. The goal here is to get it working with a minimum of effort. I've spent plenty of time fussing with this stuff, and the end result is this guide, which I'm passing along to you in the hopes that it will save you some time, or teach you something.
If I'm doing something wrong (likely), or there's a better way to do it (very likely), please enlighten me! If you have something you'd like to see included in this guide, I can do my best to accomodate, although if it's not something that doesn't fit the theme of "LAMP for us little guys", I probably won't include it.
That being said, I hope you find it useful!
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