beh Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 (edited) Recently I redid my server and I did it so incredibly easy and fast, so I decided to share what I did. I'm assuming you have a computer you want to dedicate as a server, which has a hard disk and a cdrom drive that is able to boot cds. I am also assuming that you know how to burn ISO's. This guide is for running an httpd with PHP and MySQL, an ftpd, and sshd Step 1) Go here and choose a mirror download the latest ISO. Step 2) Use nero or a similar program to burn the ISO to a cd. Step 3) Boot the DSL cd and when everything is loaded either press ctrl+alt+backspace to close X and go to the command prompt, or open a terminal inside fluxbox and type sudo -u root fdisk /dev/hda Step 4) You should then see Command (m for help): Press p to show the current partition table. Press d and then pick the partition number of the patition you want to delete until they are all gone and you have a blank partition table. Now press n to create a new partition, p for a primary partition, then press 1 to put it under partition number one. You should see First cylinder (1-784, default 1): press <return> then it will ask for last cylinder. Here is where you should know large your hard disk is in MB, when you first hit P it tells you this. What you want to do is create this partition as big as possible but leave enough space for a swap partition. You also should know how much RAM you have. Take the amount of ram you have in mb and multiply it by 1.5, this ishow big your swap partition should be. Subtract this amount from the total amount of your disk and that is how much your first partition should be. Where it says Last cylinder type +xxxM where xxx is the size of the hard disk excluding the space reserved for swap. Step 5) Do the same thing from step for by creating a new partition except this time pick primary and then 2 when it asks which partition number, then press return for the first cylinder and last cylinder so that it uses up the rest of the disk. After the swap partition has been made press t then pick partition 2 then enter 82 for the hex code, this will assign partition 2 as swap space. Last press w to write changes to the disk and exit. Step 6) Now that you are back at the command line enter this command sudo -u root dsl-hdinstall This will run the hd-install script and should copy all the files to the hard disk and set everything up, it will then ask if you want to set up lilo hit y and press return and then it will reboot. Step 7) You should have successfully booted into damn small linux from the hard disk now, if all is successful great now close out of the x server it is running by hitting ctrl+alt+backspace and run mkswap /dev/hda2 to format the swap partition to be used as swap space. Step 8) now it is time to install the xampp package for apache php and mysql. type 'su root' so that you switch to root so you have privelages then you can go to this page to find a mirror, and type wget "http://urlofxamppackage.tar.gz" here is my example using an atlanta georgia mirror wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xampp/xampp-linux-1.4.10a.tar.gz once the download is complete type tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.10a.tar.gz -C /opt Step 9) When the extraction finishes type /opt/lampp/lampp start this should start apache with php and mysql, and the ftpd hopefully everything worked well :D IMPORTANT: run this to set all the passwords /opt/lampp/lampp security Test the server by going to http://servers.address it should bring up some xampp pages to test that everything is working fine. To start sshd run these two commands ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N "" sshd Notes: File Locations http config: /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf ftp config: /opt/lampp/etc/proftpd.conf To run MySQL queries locally run /opt/lampp/bin/mysql Edited December 18, 2004 by beh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisispete Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 what services does this server give us? ie. mail, web hosting, sql etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 18, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 18, 2004 Cool. :) Just curious, what services are running after you do this setup? (ssh?) Also, what does iptables look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beh Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 I added some stuff i was missing including how to run an sshd, the bad part is that there is no iptables package installed by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureEdit Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Thanks, I needed something like this. Looks like it sets up the following: 1. httpd 2. php 3. mysql 4. ftpd 5. sshd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Cool, interesting, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndurilShards Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 thanks! I've always wanted to know :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 according to the XAMPP website the package includes: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, gdbm, zlib, expat, Sablotron, libxml, Ming, Webalizer, pdf class, ncurses, mod_perl, FreeTDS, gettext, mcrypt, mhash, Turck MMCache, SQLite and IMAP C-Client. thats quite a lot for such a short install. also this dosent have to be installed on DSL. i think this is how i will set up my server just on another distro aslo a nice artical on how to setup and configure this is here http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-xampp/ just thought i would help out a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Can anyone tell me why everytime I try to change something it tells me that the filesystem is read-only :unsure: For example, I try to reboot the system and it tells me: Fed 7 19:04:31 box daemon.info init: cannot execute "/etc/init"Remounting filesystem read-only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 you probably don't have it set to the right permissions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another_Paul Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 How do you change your IP address using DSL? This is a newbie here if u cant tell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another_Paul Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 How do you change your IP address using DSL? This is a newbie here if u cant tell... 585617191[/snapback] Just found out how. Right Click for the Menu, go to SYSTEM then NET SETUP then NETCARDCONFIG :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate.E Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 So this sets up a basic personal server? How would you go about actually connecting your server to the internet so you could host webpages on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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