Very nice Jimmy I suggest though that when you put it on MLUG put the step by step very explicitly (use KISS) and the explanation either beside it or in another section. In my experience people do not read in detail until they run into problems (who read's the manual unless they need it ?? :))
Tricia On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > Jimmy wrote: >> Its exciting to see so many people interested in using Linux more and >> more. I am often asked about setting up a "small server" for web, > Nice write up Jimmy, one other thing I do is to set the SSH listening > port to be something non-standard. It is really just obscuring the fact > SSH is there, but it stops all those logged intrusion attempts, and if > you put the port up high, the server looks completely closed to incoming > traffic on many port scans. > > One more point is that you can use SFTP instead of FTP and save yourself > some pretty major headaches, but this is harder to do with a multi-user > setup if you want to restrict them to their $HOME. In fact, anyone with > a nice easy way to do this, please chime in. You have to start messing > with chroot and jails etc... which IMO quickly becomes more unwieldy > than an FTP setup. > > One last point is that the Ubuntu Server Guide included under > System>Help and Support (click on advanced topics, then installing > server applications - does anyone know if you can send a link to help > pages somehow?) is quite good and comprehensive for beginners. It has > step-by-step guides for most web services. > > Please do post it to the site, if you need help or have probs, shoot me > an email. > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| "I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it." -Vincent Van Gogh _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
