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Setting up my own RHEL server… again
If you have followed my story over the past few months, you will know that I got out of hosting. This has been an excellent move over all as it frees up a lot of my time to do what I like best, develope websites and tinker.
As I have a fair number of sites I did not want to host them all where placed my clients, as I could not afford that much. So I looked around and tried out a number of low price hosting options. As it turns out, they are low priced for a reason--commen sense right?
So, this week I rented another server at ThePlanet. I find their network unbeatable, and their tech support excellent when needed. Never had a billing issue either. This week ThePlanet had a sale on which made getting a Dual 3.2Ghz with 2GB of RAM and 2.5Terabytes of bandwidth for only $147 a good thing. This is a plain RHEL5 box with no control panel. Something I wanted to try for sometime.
Over the next few weeks I will write up my experience, whether good or bad, smart or stupid, right here.
Phase one involved installing a few items:
- Install Trac
- Install Subversion (SVN)
- Install watchdog
- Install APF firewall
- Install BFD brute force detection
- Install MySQL 5
- Remove Sendmail
- Install Exim
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cd /usr/local/src/
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mkdir trac
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cd trac
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clearsilver/clearsilver-0.10.4-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/trac/trac-0.10.4-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clearsilver/python-clearsilver-0.10.4-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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rpm -Uvh *.rpm
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cd /usr/local/src/
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mkdir subversion
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cd subversion
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/subversion/mod_dav_svn-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/subversion/subversion-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/subversion/subversion-devel-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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rpm -Uvh *.rpm
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Note: you may need to install a few additional items from yum like apr-devel if I remember correctly.
Install watchdog:
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/watchdog/watchdog-5.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh watchdog-5.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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cd /usr/local/src
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wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz
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tar -zxvf apf-current.tar.gz
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cd apf-0.9.6-3/
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sh install.sh
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You will then need to configure the /etc/apf/conf.apf file to make sure you have the proper ports opened up. Might as well toss your IP into the /etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules files to ensure you don't lock yourself out at some point. Obviously only works if you have a static IP.
Install BFD Brute force Detection
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cd /usr/local/src/
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wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/bfd-current.tar.gz
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tar -zxvf bfd-current.tar.gz
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cd bfd-0.9/
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sh install.sh
Install MySQL:
This is a straight yum install and I recommend staying with this to make future upgrades easier.
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yum install mysql-server
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yum install mysql-devel
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yum install mysql-client
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yum install mysql-client-community
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/etc/init.d/mysqld start
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/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
Make sure you enter your desired password here!
Remove sendmail:
Why remove sendmail? I want to use something a little newer and after polling my friends, I have chosen exim. This may change in the future, but for now this is my choice.
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yum remove sendmail
That was it! Cool!
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yum install exim
That was it! Cool again.
I have not gone into the setting up and configure of each app on the system. Other posts on my site will cover some of those things, and for Exim configuration, I will try to do my best to document my progress. Happy or otherwise.
