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2.3 Prerequisites for a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Installation
Take the following steps before running the ColdFusion installer on Linux
2.3.1 - Before you Install RedHat Enterprise Linux
Read through the NSA Guide to Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (A.3) - at the time of this
writing a Guide specific to RHEL Version 6 was not yet published, check with the NSA operating system
configuration guidance (A.2) list to see if an updated guide has been published.
2.3.2 - Installing RedHat Enterprise Linux
Create separate partitions for the web root(s) in this guide we will use /web/ as the mount point for our web
sites partition, please choose a unique mounting point name.
Select a minimum set of packages, it is recommended that you do not install a graphical desktop environment.
Choose to enable SELinux in Enforcing mode during the installation process.
2.3.3 - Update Installed Software and Remove Unnecessary Software
To update software run:
# yum update
To see what software packages are installed run
# yum list installed | more
Remove any packages that are not required.
2.3.4 Install/Update Apache and remove Unnecessary Modules
If Apache (httpd) has not yet been installed, install it using yum:
# yum install httpd
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