Hello All,

I want to start off by saying that I as new you can get to Linux. I wanted to document some of my progress with this Distro and I thought I can help other newbie’s. I haven't seen a lot of info dedicated to sarge and it took me a while of searching to find what I did. I have been documenting all of my progress with a configuration of a dedicated server in scripts and now I want to put it in one place. I am going to start of with the basic's configuration of apache, mysql and php.

So here goes……… please add to what I have and tell me if you want more.

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# Install Steps
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# First let’s make sure your packages are up-to-date
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apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

#
# I’m not assuming anything so let’s make sure we have ssh installed so
# we can remote login
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apt-get install ssh

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# Now what I do next is make a user account that I can log into and deny # ssh logins to ssh from root for security issues
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adduser user

passwd user ‘and give yourself a password’

#
# Now make sure you can login to the user you just made
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su user

#
# Ok, exit that user and remove root access from ssh
#

exit

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

#
# Change PermitRootLogin from yes -> no
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PermitRootLogin no

#
# Make sure to save your work
#

Ctrl + :

wq 'enter'

#
# Now login to ssh with a client, I like putty, you'll have to login in with the # user accout you made above
#
# Now that your login with a non-privliged user you'll want to switch to root
#

su root 'and give the password for root'

#
# Ok, now that's out of the way lets start installing some apps
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# We will start with apache/mysql/php install and then test them.
# I added a couple of other things I'll need in the future
#

apt-get install apache apache-ssl apache-dev mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common php4 php4-imap php4-mysql openssl ca-certificates

#
# Test apache
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http://"your-ip-address"/

#
# You should see the place holder page
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# Create a an admin account for mysql and test it
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mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

mysql -u root -p "enter password given above"

exit;

#
# Now, we make a test page for php
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touch /var/www/test.php

chmod 755 /var/www/test.php

vi /var/www/test.php

<?
echo("<h1>PHP and Apache Works!</h1>");
?>

#
# Make sure to save your work
#

Ctrl + :

wq 'enter'

# I like to restart apache now to make sure everything is ok
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/etc/init.d/apache restart

#
# Now, test to see if PHP is working
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http://"your-ip-address"/test.php

#
# You should see a nice greeting telling you that PHP and Apache Works!
#
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