I downloaded putty and can find my way around the commands to navigate to the files, but I really don't like the interface and don't know how to properly edit them. I really just want to download the file, make the edits, and upload them back. I've got some optimization to do on my server and want to do this the right way.
1st rule: Make a backup: cp filename newfilename.whatever 2nd rule: If you're not familiar with VI , don't use it. Use Pico: pico filename There are commands at the bottom of the text editor. Very simple to use.
LOL... that's exactly how I was told. Login as root say you're going to edit httpd.conf (altho if you're a beginner at this you really shouldn't mess with the httpd.conf file - or any system file) You would make a backup of the file: say cp httpd.conf.backup (that's telling unix/linux to copy the httpd.conf file to httpd.conf.backup) pico httpd.conf Make your changes - carefully. ^X - ctrl X will exit you out of the file. You'll get a choice to save the file. If you do a man pico while logged in via ssh, you'll get a help file. A tad cryptic.
Your correct I don't know anything about those files, but I do have a recommended tweaked setting for my server that I'd like to run. Also for the my.cnf especially I want to turn the mysql caching on. Thanks, got it figured out and the files edited. It was a pretty simple thing, I was just alittle intimidated. Oh, by the way, mysql with query caching is the bomb.