Yesterday I finally switched the webserver, smtp server and imap/pop3 server over to the linux box I’ve been building. It was a relatively pain free exercise. All the websites are running on apache 2.0.48 with mysql 4.0.17 and php 4.3.4. Moving the latest mysql data across was trivial. The only hiccups were to do with URL rewrites to change .html to .php for the band and church websites and changing the paths to the required header file.

On top of that I also built the latest version of the Courier IMAP server. Squirrelmail just continued to work and I needed to add a relay directive to the Exim config so I can send e-mail via the new server from work.

I can now run MRTG properly (I never figured out how to do it for the XP box) so I can monitor traffic. I also upgraded AWStats too which was okay but I’ve lost some stats for January and February, but it’s not that important.

There should be no reason why this should ever need to be turned off when people come to stay so there’ll be an improved level of service. No more outages when I have to apply the latest Microsoft patch.