On 17/03/13 15:54, Payne, Tony wrote:
Hi All,
I've been receiving all your emails for a couple of years, but never got round
to doing anything myself. I've finally installed Ubuntu Server on a machine
which I'd like to use as a Scout server (I'm also a Scout Leader), with file
storage, mail server, web server and maybe more. The idea being that all my
leaders can reach this server at any time. The only thing is, I know next to
nothing about Linux! Can any of you recommend a good starting place, like a
particular web site or book.
The server has only got the core installation on it, and maybe the web server,
but I'm not sure as I didn't fully understand what I was doing when I installed
it! I look forward to any comments and advice, and thank you all in advance.
Cheers,
Tony Payne
Hi Tony
I think asking how long a piece of string is would of been easier.
I will put forward my tuppence worth and we you can go from there. As a
new user to Linux I would of installed xubuntu simply as it give you a
graphical interface rather than the command line that the server gives
you (xubuntu is a light weight GUI compared to ubuntu). Some might argue
that it a security risk or the gui takes away vital server resources but
as you are only looking at a small occasional user base it should not be
to much of a problem.
If you want to install a gui then look at this page
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-gui-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise-server.html
A useful program I install on my linux box is mc (midnight commander),
this is a very simple text based user interface (sort of early gui). I
find editing files a lot easier than trying to remember key combination
for test editor like vi.
If you are going to be playing with web servers then you will need to
install LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP)
Linux=Ubuntu
Apache=web server
MySQL= Database
PHP=Scripting (programming) language used on web servers
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/ftp-server.html
Never having played with email servers I will leave that to somebody else.
I hope you find some of this useful, there are many more knowledgeable
users on the forum who will be able to help you out (or correct anything
I got wrong).
Tim
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