Newbie questions

[phoenix.kiula]

Hi,


I have been given the task of running a Plesk panel for the first time in my life. I've been accustomed to Cpanel/WHM with Fantastico and RVSkin. I suppose one gets used to one's habitat.

Anyway, now I would like to be comfortable with Plesk 8.2 on RedHat 5.0 ES.

I am looking for basic things such as how to upgrade Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Postgresql and such. But unable to find it. The Plesk interface is quite pretty but a bit dumbed-down for real admin tasks, or am I missing something?

Many thanks for any pointers. I went to the Plesk help thing and typed "upgrade apache" without quotes and found "0 results"!!

 

[poke]

Plesk upgrades don't upgrade Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL. You can update these by using up2date or YUM in your case.

This site will help you setup YUM:
http://www.atomicorp.com/channels/

 

[laughingbuddha]

As a newbie myself I recommend ART's channel for YUM too. Also his subscription security channel for YUM is worth using too.

The guys on this forum help me, and complete newbie to Linux not only setup a CentOS 5 box, but also get plesk on it and updated.

I have almost finished my complete dummies guide to CentOS 5 and Plesk install, which includes all the helpful pointers people on the forum have given me. I will credit them all once its complete, and I have got a forum user to verify the guide.

In the mean time add ART's channel to your YUM using the following:-

# wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh
# yum update