Mokka mit Schlag » Mac

I’ve now returned from Software Development 2006 and am ready to continue moving this server to my new Mac Mini. I had left it turned off while I was away. I turned it on, and loaded the first site into my browser; or rather I tried to load the first site. I couldn’t connect. Hmm, did I forget the IP address? Nope, I forgot to setup Apache to automatically launch at system startup. Let’s fix that.
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To summarize what has gone before, I now have headless, network access to the mini, gcc installed, and have found my preferred set of Apache config options. For future reference they are:

Now let’s configure:
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The Mac Mini ships with both Apache, PHP, and MySQL preinstalled. However they’re relatively old versions, and I want something a little more up-to-date for this site. So the first step to migrating is to get the latest versions of those installed. Annoyingly, fink is not yet ready for Intel Macs; so that’s going to make everything quite a bit more complex.
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The single core Intel Mini I’m going to replace this server with has arrived. On the plus side it got here two days earlier than Apple predicted. That’s very nice, especially since otherwise I likely wouldn’t have had time to set it up before I leave for Software Development on Friday. What follows are a few random notes as I configure it.

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The Intel Mini leaves me feeling a little disappointed. For one thing the price is up, not down. The low end Intel model is $100 more than the low end G4 model was. For another, although A/V functionality has improved somewhat, it’s still not ready to replace my cable box or Tivo or DVD. I’ll probably still buy one of the lowend models to replace the old Dell running this site like I was planning, but I won’t buy an extra one to hook up to my TV like I was considering, and I may wait a little while to buy the first one if this Dell continues to hold out.

Probably everybody but me. Here I’ve been waiting patiently for the ISO release of Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 to resurrect my old G3 as a backup server (Yes, I know I could have just installed YellowDog 4.0, but it seemed pointless to do it now and then have to upgrade in a few weeks.) when I could have just installed what’s my preferred Linux distro these days in the first place.

However my initial efforts failed. The live CD was unable to boot my Blue & White G3. I am now burning an install CD to see if that will work. Apparently the newer models of Mac are a lot more reliable about this than the older models. Still there are a lot of problems getting set up compared to what would be expected on whitebox X86 hardware. The live CD started to boot my PowerMac dual G5 but hung.

I may also try NetBSD and see if that works.