I want to move a web site to new more powerful hardware from a workstation running Windows XP Pro Sp3 x32 with
Tomcat 5.5.20, MySQL 5.4.20, and jre1.6.0.
Will this be a painful process if I move it to a Linux server? I have prepared several operating systems for
testing. I am a long time Windows administrator and a linux newbie. When I finish, a web developer will take over troubleshooting.
I have installed four(4) x86_64 evaluation edition operating systems (multiboot) on the new server to test the website migration: Windows 2008 Server Std Edition with Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and openSUSE 11.1. I have installed XEN on Red Hat and may do the same with the SUSE's. I thought I would perform testing on virtual machines.
In a clutch, I could install XP Pro Sp3 as a guest virtual machine. I plan to test using virtual machines to avoid reinstallation of the host OS during botched testing.
Thanks,
Rich