I’ve been running a web and email server out of my house for three years. When I did the initial install I had experience with configuring Windows as a web and email server but Exchange was unstable and I hated having to reboot Windows servers to apply security patches. As a result of my experiences I chose to increase my Linux experience and the best way to do that was install and set up Linux as a web and email server. Three years ago I chose to do that with Fedora, Apache2, and Sendmail. The initial configuration wasn’t simple. I had to learn how to compile source code. I spent hours digging through forums and how-to articles to get my configurations correct. But after a couple of weeks working in my free time I had a stable, secure, Linux system with web access to my email. In the course of three years I never had to reboot the server and when I found security holes I did a quick up2date and it applied the upgrade and installed a patch. I was very happy with my new Fedora server and it ran perfectly until last Tuesday…

Redhat moved from Up2date to yum and as far as I could find Fedora Core 2 stopped being supported late last year. As a result I couldn’t use up2date to patch Apache2 when security vulnerabilities were found for Apache 2.0.51, instead I would have to download source and compile it then reconfigure it to work with Sendmail and Squirrelmail. When faced with this challenge I decided it would probably be best just to update to a new version of Fedora that supported Yum and Redhat still offered updates for. The install from CD seemed to go smoothly.

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