Building A New Server

Building a server using CentOS 5.x/6.x

Install required packages:

yum -y install httpd httpd-devel php php-gd php-pdo php-imap libtheora cdparanoia php-pear php-dba php-xml php-common php-cli php-devel php-mysql php-mbstring perl-Geography-Countries mysql-server gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel postfix dovecot spamassassin named

Packages to remove:

yum remove sendmail

Make sure following services are set to start on startup:

chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig postfix on
chkconfig iptables on
chkconfig dovecot on