Request: Perfect Ubuntu 6.06 LTS - Automatic LAMP Server Installation (co-location)

[falko]

Originally Posted by Anim

Page 3: Edit /etc/apt/sources.list And Update Your Linux Installation

The changes here are I guess to comment out the CD-ROM source at the top of the file and uncomment the Universe sources at the bottom.

Right. My sources.list looks like this (I stripped out the comments):

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

Originally Posted by Anim

Moving down page 3 the line that says

Install/Remove Some Software
Now let's install some software we need later on and remove some packages that we do not need:
apt-get install binutils cpp cpp-4.0 fetchmail flex gcc gcc-4.0 libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev linux-kernel-headers lynx m4 make ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev (in 1 Line!!)

Fails because it can't find ncftp, I checked that universe was enabled in my sources list and it is so got stumped here. As we install ftpprod anyway I just omitted this from the above line and 14.9MB of download later i could carry on.

ncftp works for me.

Originally Posted by Anim

Also, was there meant to be a bit that we remove somewhere as the title suggests?

No, this is a little bit misleading.

Originally Posted by Anim

Quota
When running quotacheck I get several warnings:

Warning Quotafile var/quota.user was probably truncated, cant save quota settings

Warning Quotafile var/quota.group was probably truncated, cant save quota settings

That's the normal behaviour when you set up quota for the first time. Nothing to worry about.

Originally Posted by Anim

This had a warning that the package libmysqlclient12-dev has no installation candidate. As I installed the LAMP installation I will assume that I have most of SQL already installed and continued on without fear of a half assed system

This one worked for me, too. But I didn't use Ubuntu's LAMP installation. But you'll need the MySQL-devel package otherwise you won't be able to install ISPConfig.

Originally Posted by Anim

mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword


Caused a "lost connection to MySQL Server during Query" error.

This means that MySQL is listening only on localhost, and then it is ok. If you want MySQL to listen on all interfaces, comment out

bind-address           = 127.0.0.1

in /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart MySQL. Then

mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root  password yourrootsqlpassword

should work.

[Anim]

Quick update

The penny dropped on my 5th install

When going through the Ubuntu install I had been changing the hostname to something other than server1 so thats why all references to server1 failed. I just set hostname and forgot about it (smacks head in shame) and I also partitioned my drives slightly differently so /var wasnt working quite as expected.

Edit: Thanks for the reply Falco, without all your help I would be days if not weeks behind on this (for me) high learning curve, jump in the deep end lets build a web server using an OS i've never used before plan

Anim

[Anim]

Originally Posted by falko

For the impatient: I've just installed Ubuntu 6.06 Server, and ISPConfig installs fine on it. You can follow the Ubuntu 5.10 tutorial ( http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_5.10 ), there aren't many changes (just install PHP5 instead of PHP4, that's it).

Im stuck at this bit

So what does the instruction

apt-get install autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php4 libkrb53 php4 php4-common php4-dev php4-imagick php4-mcrypt php4-rrdtool php4-sqlite php4-curl php4-domxml php4-gd php4-imap php4-ldap php4-mcal php4-mhash php4-mysql php4-odbc php4-pear php4-xslt


Become?

Ive tried renaming all 4's to 5's which didn't quite work.

Sorry to pester. I have got this far and now possibly need to start again as I have a broken mix of php4 and php5 on my system now

Anim

[falko]

Originally Posted by Anim

Im stuck at this bit

So what does the instruction

apt-get install autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php4 libkrb53 php4 php4-common php4-dev php4-imagick php4-mcrypt php4-rrdtool php4-sqlite php4-curl php4-domxml php4-gd php4-imap php4-ldap php4-mcal php4-mhash php4-mysql php4-odbc php4-pear php4-xslt


Become?

apt-get install autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php-pear php5-ldap php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pspell

I've just finished the "Perfect Setup" for Ubuntu 6.06. I will publish it on HowtoForge in the next few days.

[Anim]

Fantastic!

Really look forward to seeing it.

[falko]

Here it is: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06

[Anim]

Thanks Falco. Your guides are superb.

[falko]

If you like it, you can digg it: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/How_T...buntu_6.06_LTS

[Anim]

A strange site that digg site. Well, i gave you a digg and posted my comments. Much of the other comments there were my own thoughts initially but as I did it manually (not LAMP) I learnt so much more which to me is very valuable knowledge for troubleshooting.

Now....back to messing with FTP lol

[falko]

Originally Posted by Anim

A strange site that digg site. Well, i gave you a digg and posted my comments. Much of the other comments there were my own thoughts initially but as I did it manually (not LAMP) I learnt so much more which to me is very valuable knowledge for troubleshooting.

Thanks!
I read the comments, you can ignore most of them as the guys there don't seem to have a clue what they're talking about. The best thing is: everybody says I should have tried the LAMP installation, but Ubuntu's LAMP installation seems to be buggy: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu....15/+bug/48266
So: real experts there on digg...