Install LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP)
Select LAMP option during installation.
or
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
default WWW root folder
/var/www
To restart apache:
sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl restart
Install phpmyadmin
sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin
address:
http://serverip/phpmyadmin/
If installation was successful, but browsing to the above address you are getting "Not Found" error, try to create a symbolic link phpmyadmin pointing to /usr/share/phpmyadmin your /var/www . You can do this by running:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www
Install FTP server
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
config file: /etc/vsftpd.conf
Change
anonymous_enable=YES
change to NO
#local_enable=YES
Uncomment
#write_enable=YES
Uncomment
Default FTP directory:
/home/username/
To change default directory:
/etc/vsftpd.conf
Add line:
local_root=/your/directory
/etc/init.d/vsftpd stop
/etc/init.d/vsftpd start
Change permissions of ftp directory
chmod -R 07555 /your/directory
Install SSH server
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Install SendMail
sudo apt-get install sendmail
If SendMal is very slow to send emails (can take 2-3 minutes) check following:
/var/log/mail.log
you may have entries like this:
My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
This means SendMail is looking for FQDN (fully qualified domain name) and can't find it.
Check your /etc/hosts file
Make sure you have FQDN as the first entry pointing to 127.0.0.1, e.g.
127.0.1.1 mail.mydomain.com localhost.localdomain localhost SERVER-NAME
For testing purposes you could use localhost.localdomain, e.g.
127.0.1.1 localhost localhost.localdomain SERVER-NAME
However it's better not to do it on a live server as this violates some email standards and your IP may get blacklisted as a SPAM sender.
Set Static IP
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Change #The primary network interface with your details
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
domain domain-name
search domain-name
nameserver 192.168.0.5
nameserver 192.168.0.6
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Remove DHCP client
sudo apt-get remove dhcp-client
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Install GUI for Ubuntu Server (Not recommended)
sudo aptitude install x-window-system-core gnome
To start GUI
sudo gdm
Enable root account (not recomended)
sudo passwd root
To disable root account
sudo usermod -p '!' root
Ubuntu Server 10.10
Ubuntu Server 11.04
