How-To: Install VPS (HyperVM)

.: April 5th, 2009 in HowTo by emcgfx .:. 528 views .:. 0 Comments .:. Tags: , ,

Hi guys, its been a while since I’ve posted anything to this blog. Since I’ve switched to linux I don’t program much for windows any more. But I will still try to update software I’ve released, like ComiX which is gotten more popular then I thought. I will also be bloging about my linux and computer experiences on here as well.

Here is a quick how-to from my notes, ones I’ve installed my vps;

VPS Specs Used:
OS: CentOS 5.3
Web Server: LightTPD
FTP Server: vsFTPd
MySQL Server and PHP
WordPress Blog

First we use to HyperVM to install CentOS 5, ones its done go to your linux shell and type the following to login.

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ssh root@yourdomain.com
password: YOUR_PASSWORD (ones asked)

## Disable SELinux and Firewall:

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system-config-securitylevel-tui

(which is optional of course).

## Stop and Remove Apache (HTTPD) Web Server

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service httpd stop && yum -y remove httpd

## Install RPMForge Repository for CentOS
## URL: https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using

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wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

## Upgrade CentOS to 5.3 and install nano,zip,rar,unrar

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yum -y update && yum -y install nano zip rar unrar

(at this point you can install other packages if you need).

## Disable .bash_history (optional).

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rm -f .bash_history && touch .bash_history && chmod 000 .bash_history && ln -sf /dev/null .bash_history

## Disable lastlog (optional).

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cd /var/log/ && rm -f lastlog && touch lastlog && chmod 000 lastlog && ln -sf /dev/null lastlog && cd

## Disable .mysql_history (optional).

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rm -f .mysql_history && touch .mysql_history && chmod 000 .mysql_history && ln -sf /dev/null .mysql_history

## Install MySQL 5 Database Server

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yum -y install mysql mysql-server && chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on && service mysqld start

## Set root and hostname passwords

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mysqladmin -u root password 'new_pass_here'
mysqladmin -h server.yourdomain.com -u root password 'new_pass_here'

## Create mysql user for WordPress (optional)

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mysql -u root -p (pass when prompted)
create database your_blog; (chose your own database)
grant all on your_blog.* to your_user@localhost identified by 'pass_here';
exit

## Install LightTPD Web Server

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yum -y install lighttpd && chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on && service lighttpd start

## Configure LightTPD

## Backup lighttpd.conf file

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cp -r /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf_bak

## Empty lighttpd.conf file

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echo "" > /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

## Copy & Paste this config file

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nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

ctrl+o (save file), ctrl+x (exit)

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##
## Custom LightTPD Config File
##
 
## modules to load:
server.modules = (
  "mod_fastcgi",
  "mod_cgi",
  "mod_redirect",
  "mod_access",
  "mod_accesslog" )
 
## server root directory:
server.document-root = "/srv/www/"
 
## mimetype mapping:
mimetype.assign             = (
  ".rpm"          =>  "application/x-rpm",
  ".pdf"          =>  "application/pdf",
  ".sig"          =>  "application/pgp-signature",
  ".class"        =>  "application/octet-stream",
  ".gz"           =>  "application/x-gzip",
  ".swf"          =>  "application/x-shockwave-flash",
  ".tar.gz"       =>  "application/x-tgz",
  ".tgz"          =>  "application/x-tgz",
  ".tar"          =>  "application/x-tar",
  ".zip"          =>  "application/zip",
  ".mp3"          =>  "audio/mpeg",
  ".m3u"          =>  "audio/x-mpegurl",
  ".wma"          =>  "audio/x-ms-wma",
  ".wax"          =>  "audio/x-ms-wax",
  ".ogg"          =>  "application/ogg",
  ".wav"          =>  "audio/x-wav",
  ".gif"          =>  "image/gif",
  ".jar"          =>  "application/x-java-archive",
  ".jpg"          =>  "image/jpeg",
  ".jpeg"         =>  "image/jpeg",
  ".png"          =>  "image/png",
  ".css"          =>  "text/css",
  ".html"         =>  "text/html",
  ".htm"          =>  "text/html",
  ".js"           =>  "text/javascript",
  ".asc"          =>  "text/plain",
  ".c"            =>  "text/plain",
  ".cpp"          =>  "text/plain",
  ".log"          =>  "text/plain",
  ".conf"         =>  "text/plain",
  ".text"         =>  "text/plain",
  ".txt"          =>  "text/plain",
  ".dtd"          =>  "text/xml",
  ".xml"          =>  "text/xml",
  ".mpeg"         =>  "video/mpeg",
  ".mpg"          =>  "video/mpeg",
  ".mov"          =>  "video/quicktime",
  ".qt"           =>  "video/quicktime",
  ".avi"          =>  "video/x-msvideo",
  ".asf"          =>  "video/x-ms-asf",
  ".asx"          =>  "video/x-ms-asf",
  ".wmv"          =>  "video/x-ms-wmv",
  ".bz2"          =>  "application/x-bzip",
  ".tbz"          =>  "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
  ".tar.bz2"      =>  "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
  ""              =>  "application/octet-stream",
 )
 
## index files:
index-file.names = ( "index.html", "index.php" )
 
## send a different server header:
server.tag = "LightTPD"
 
## where to log errors:
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
 
## where to log access:
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
 
## deny access to file-extensions:
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
 
$HTTP["url"] =~ ".pdf$" {
	server.range-requests = "disable"
}
 
## ignore extensions via static-file transfer:
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi", ".cgi" )
 
## help the rc.scripts
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
 
## change uid username:
server.username = "lighttpd"
 
## change uid group:
server.groupname = "lighttpd"
 
## fastcgi module:
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
	( "localhost" =>
		(
			"socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket",
			"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi"
		)
	)
)
 
## cgi support:
cgi.assign = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
               ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )
 
## make wordpress urls clean:
server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php?error=404"
 
## www to non-www urls
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www.(.*)" {
	url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://%1/$1" )
}

## Install PHP5 and modules

## Install LightTPD CGI/PHP modules

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yum -y install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli

## Configure php.ini file

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nano /etc/php.ini

(add the following line to the end of php.ini)

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cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

## Install aditional php modules

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yum -y install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc

## Restart LightTPD server

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service lighttpd restart

## Delete LightTPD folder (optional)

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cd /srv/www/
rm -rf lighttpd/

## Install vsFTPd Server

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yum -y install vsftpd && chkconfig --levels 235 vsftpd on && service vsftpd start

## Add vsFTPd user

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useradd -G users,ftp,wheel user_name_here -s /sbin/nologin
passwd user_name_here
chown -R user_name_here /srv/www/

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