Linux / LAMP course
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-08-31 08:16:54 - Graham EllisThere's just so much you can learn about Linux - it's a complete operating system and you can easily get 3 or 4 days of user training, followed by weeks of "admin" training before you even start to think about Apache httpd, web site management tools, Perl, PHP, MySQL and the rest. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP) really could be a daunting set of technologies to learn.
I've used Linux for a number of years, and I've trained on Perl since 1996 ... with MySQL and PHP course being added later. I used to train on Solaris in the 1990s (to rave reviews) and I've done quite a few web sites too. So when the I got was asked Hey, Graham - you know about all these topics - can you do a LAMP introduction it seemed a natural development. And here we are, notes written, course run a couple of times already and again this week ... small group as yet, but these things take their time to build up.
1 day - Linux for users
1 day - Linux Admin for webmasters
2 days - Running a LAMP web service
Most of our own domains are hosted on Linux systems and we can log in through ssh and ftp to update and configure them; typically we have good access to httpd and Linux services and utilities, and there are thousands more like us. We're planning that this 4 day course covers well the introduction that most people need, and we'll leave the specialist stuff from firewalls to mail servers, and from DNS routers to SAMBA configuration to the specialists with the longer courses.