Fedora10 preps for joomla
# yum -y httpd mysql-server mysql
# yum -y install php php-mysql
# yum install sendmail-cf

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# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<Directory />
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>


DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var
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voor com_expose:

yum -y install php-gd php-xml

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 security!
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chown -R root:root .
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 707 images
chmod 707 images/stories
chmod 707 images/frontpage
chown apache:apache cache
find modules/mod_* -type d -exec chown root:apache {} \;


Check RW status of dirs in administration website Joomla > help > system info > directory permissions