Danux Tech Wiki

scrapbook - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-08-07T13:43:21+01:00

Blog * Django Pre-Launch Checklist * Using Google Insights to Help Optimise Your Content

start

Daniel Davies — 2009-08-07T13:39:39+01:00

Welcome to the Danux Tech Wiki. This wiki is my personal collection of tutorials and snippets some how related to web development, Linux or anything techy that interests me. Its sole purpose is for my personal use, but I hope that some of what is contained within will be of use to others, thus have shared it with the public. What is on here comes with no warranty, if you use the sample code or follow any of the tutorials I may have assumed certain prerequisites have been satisfied. Furthermore, …

replace_text_within_a_file - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-06-17T16:38:59+01:00

< Back to General Setup find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/’ {} \;

general_setup

Daniel Davies — 2009-06-17T16:37:17+01:00

About generally setting up a webserver, generally the initial processes More Sections * Uncomplicated Firewall * Admin Users * Quota * chrooted SFTP * SNMPD + Cacti * Directory Structures * SSH Keyless Entry * Replace Text Within a File

snmpd_cacti - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-03-02T14:06:43+01:00

< Back to General Setup Used to monitor servers remotely, and provide legacy information through RRD SNMPD Config First, bind the server to an IP address vi /etc/default/snmpd Check the line # snmpd options (use syslog, close stdin/out/err). SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid 127.0.0.1' and change to read

dynamic_virtual_hosts - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-10T12:57:45+01:00

< back to Web Servers RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.example\.com$ RewriteRule .? /var/www/%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

web_servers

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-10T12:56:40+01:00

Sections * Lamp Setup (Apache2, PHP5, MySQL, phpMyAdmin) * SSL Virtual Hosts * Enabling User Directories * Virtual Host Templates * Suexec VirtualHosts * Enabling awstats * Rotating Logs * Dynamic Virtual Hosts

admin_users

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-06T11:28:56+01:00

< back to General Setup sudo adduser admin To provide a user with admin (sudo) access to the server

quota

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-06T11:28:38+01:00

< back to General Setup Installing Quota sudo apt-get install quota vi /etc/fstab * Group quotas: /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults,grpquota 1 1 * User quotas: /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 1 crontab -e 0 3 * * 0 /sbin/quotacheck -avugmf Configuring a Quota edquota -g Disk quotas for group (gid 1000): Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes so…

virtual_host_templates

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-06T10:07:24+01:00

< back to Web Servers All folders are lower case, with underscores (_) to denote spaces between words. In event of a long name, separate initials or logical abbreviations with underscores Django Sites # SITE NAME ServerName www.mysite.com ServerAlias mysite.com SetHandler python-program PythonPath "['//'] + sys.path" PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE .settingshttp://creativec…

ssl_virtual_hosts - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-05T17:29:24+01:00

< back to web servers * Each SSL enabled site requires a unique IP * Self Signing an SSL cert will provide a user with an error, so in a full production environment us a proper CA Generating the SSL Cert

lamp_setup - created

Daniel Davies — 2009-02-05T15:47:41+01:00

< back to Web Servers Install and Setup apt-get install apache2.2-common apache2 Remember to open the firewall ufw allow 80/tcp Mods are kept in /etc/apache2/mods-available to enable them cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/ /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ Control Commands Restarting, rarely needed: