Bits Build your own server

What do you mean by server? The one that the guide is talking about?

Thank you

 

Yeah It's meant to serve files

 

Why do you need a database, php and webserver just to download torrents? If you want to initiate torrents remotely wouldn't some sort of command line command do it?

Anyway, Dugg the article. Definitely nice to see these kinds of software guides available if I need them.

 

nice guide glider , Ill be asking how to replace torrents as a means of downloading with newsgroups , but I will ask in the Linux section once I've got one of my spare boxes set up

 

Nice!

 

Good guide, Glider. Somebody has needed to do something like this for a long time

 

It's required for the remote web access interface. The article mentioned that you could just use VNC to control a GUI torrent client if you were so inclined.

But it's helpful to have those installed anyways if you ever do any kind of development work.

 

I have and it is much better than VNC.

the NX web plugin can be used to access the computer securely from any computer with a web browser as well (just don't try playing games unless you're on gigabit LAN)

 

Thanks for the article, should come in useful in coming weeks.

 

Im a total noob with these server things, can someone just answer a few questions:

Is it possible for me to create a website and have it hosted on this server that i create?
Can it be accessed by the public if this is the case? (as in the whole web? )
Im looking to create a website with a friend but dont wish to spend money monthly, can this allow me to host websites and create domains on the internet?
I hope im not too far off the mark in my understanding of this server thingy-me-bob you made

 

Great guide, its inspired me to do it - which ive been meaning to do for a looong time now, seeing as ive got a mini-itx board doing nothing.

 

We all were once, don't matter...

Sure it does, just forward port 80 to the server and it'll be dishing out to the world wide web.

HOWEVER a word of warning/piece of advice. This guide had ease of setup in mind, not security. It has lots of services running, with minimum security. Internally (LAN) that doesn't matter that much. You generally know who is on your network, and what they can do. If you open up the server to the internet you lose that knowledge. There for you need to close up all back doors. I administrate some webservers, and they are all hosted on Debian based servers, so that's not that different from this guide (Ubuntu is Debian based), however, those servers don't have X systems running on them, just CLI. Next to none extra services (mostly SSH/FTP only), with the crucial things (SSH mainly) listening on non standard ports. Also, Apache2 makes use of modules. If you watch the install of apache closely you'll see it add mpm-prefork modules and such. Well, for frontline servers there are more secure modules that get my favour (like mpm-itk, or suphp if the site has PHP scripting).

Creating domains is something that's been done by DNS (if I understand correctly), so that you cannot do with this server.You can however get (buy) a DNS redirect and let it point to your IP. An other piece of advice, if you plan to host a site that gets a few visitors, you'll need a fast uplink (upload speeds). Clients (users that connect to your site) don't like to wait a long time for content to load.

All this just to say, it can be done without much hassle, but it won't be secure. If I were you, I'd look into a more secure way of implementing it. However, if it's just for testing, you're set, you have a Webserver (Apache2), scripting language (PHP5) and a database (MySQL 5) at your disposal. If you need more information about it, just open up a thread, there's plenty of experience floating around this forum, or just PM me to get some links to some good reads.

 

Great guide to hammering the nail in Microsoft's Vista coffin...

 

Now all we need is a guide to cheaply getting a server hooked up to a fat pipe.

 

Well **** me! I never thought I'd see the day Bit-Tech do an article on linux!

Good read and should be enough to get people going.

However if all you want is a NAS then a much better option would have been to use FreeNAS, http://www.freenas.org as it does all the file sharing (FTP, SSH, Samba etc) and uses only 16mb of disk space to run in (they recomend just using the boot cd or installing it to an old USB key. While it wont do torrents or web serving it makes for a great NAS box and comes with easy to set up sotware raid.

 

I too am a noob as far as Linux goes,never used it and what's more this was probably only my 3rd artical I have ever read about using it. so when I say noob I mean it. Most of it faded to a blur which was expected by me and is no reflrction on the quality of the artical but the inability to be able to carry out the read/do MO.

This brings me to a request, downloadable PDF of the articals plz. It's going to help a lot to have readable print next to the smoking debris. Anywhoo downloading the iso as I type, you have caught my interest in Linux and I'll play in the safety of that for a bit after all let's walk before we drown .

 

downloadable pdfs is a fantastic idea could this be done on all articles i would love to have an archive of all the good articles here. im sure the new management structure would be keen on this.

on a side note i set up a home server using ubuntu and a brand new 690 + 3600x2ee computer a couple of months back but it kept losing connection after transfering files, also mp3's played of it would skip. i ditched it the idea of linux for Xp for the time being but this article has got me interested again. would anyone have any idea of why i was getting connection problems?

 

Well my gob is well and truly smacked . Downloaded the Ubuntu iso for my AMD system then burned to a CD. Set my bios to boot from CD, it did and now I'm typing this on here under Linux. I have not done a single other thing and I'm simply lost for words. First surprise is my wireless mouse found and working, router/internet, graphics card all up and running without a single error or dialog box just perfect.

Going away now to wallow in my found status of Guru.

 

Excellent article, keep them coming Glider!

Fixed, thanks! -- Da Dego

 

Thanks for the (enormous) list of typo's... I reread it a couple of times but they seem to have slipped me... Well, Brett has some work to do now

Very true... Viewing the IP is easy, in a terminal, do

Code:

sudo ifconfig

and you'll see a entry "inet adress"...

Changing it is a bit harder. Again in a terminal:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

and then change

Code:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

to

Code:

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

for an IP of .100, with a gateway of .1

Save and exit, restart the networking to apply

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and you are done