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actionM
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#21 Post by actionM »

Haha, come on man, I don't roll like that! This is the Debian forum for god sake. :) We forgive you tho.

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#22 Post by Noven »

canci wrote:I now realized that I made a complete dork of myself and humbly
appologize. I mistook LAMP for XAMPP... Please ignore my former remarks.

:oops:
haha ok I forgive you. I was about to reply with something along the lines of :shock: :shock: :evil: :roll: :oops:

But you came clean so its ok 8)

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#23 Post by canci »

actionM wrote:This is the Debian forum for god sake. :)
That's what I thought! Kinda like "Why would they wanna have xampp on
a server???"

And yeah, tnx! :)
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#24 Post by pigah »

actionM wrote:I don't know if this would be HOWTO worthy or not. It may just be to short of an answer or too long, but maybe a "troubleshooting howto".

-How to find out whats actually causing your problem
-where to look for known bugs

Something along those lines. I'm just curious about the steps everyone takes when something isn't working as normal.
I second this one, but also a description of how to properly report a bug. This is a good way to help improve Debian without being an official part of the project.

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#25 Post by Ulsak »

First, I have to confess that Im surprised by the tolerant and kind atmosphere here. I'm an Ubuntu user and this forum shows "humanity to others" in the same proportions as Ubuntus..Thank you for that.

Right, I'm aware of the meaning of RTFM and I have also search through different postings, sites and docs and also found a few solutions.
Nevertheless, I would appreciate a throrough how-to the issue on depositories, sources.list and synaptic mechanisms

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Debian based server how to for beginners

#26 Post by _FOCUS_ »

We decided to set up a web server for our work's web site. We have static ip net connection. I followed howto forge's how to set up etch server how to but I couldn't achieve make it run. I have not installed server before. This is my first try. So I don't realy know where I have to save my web page on a server and how. So that how to not good for me. Its only tell how to set up then nothing. I need more.

My other problem is that. I tried to make same my /etc/network/interfaces like in that howto.

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#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
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
There are two ethernet deteched on pc which we worked on. So I press enter as debian chose eth1. So I made there change. But then my pc won't connect to net.

my interfaces config is;

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#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 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

I want to a help or a good howto or book. Please help me. We will use in our server php pages and generally html pages.
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Re: Debian based server how to for beginners

#27 Post by llivv »

_FOCUS_ wrote: This is my first try. So I don't realy know where I have to save my web page on a server and how.
web pages are kept in the www folder <find www>
Also, good practices: separate partitions for /var and I think another directory as well, and I'd mount the www folder on it's own partition too.
_FOCUS_ wrote:

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#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
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

#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 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
depending on your static IP scope try:

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#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
        address 192.168.0.101
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1
sorry to answer questions in the Howto section

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Howto completely replace Nautilus

#28 Post by Squirrel »

I would like to know how I can completely get rid of Nautilus and replace it with Krusader.

I tried the script from http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease but it did not work. I tried it with root, I tried it after stopping GDM and so forth. I spent some hourse to find a solution - no luck.

It would be great when somebody with the needed skills could take a look into that...

Thanks!

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#29 Post by irishrugger »

I am requesting a complete tutorial on how to setup ssh, connect to it, and run a GUI over the resulting connection. (i've got the first two parts down, but the third is causing me all sorts of headaches)

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#30 Post by didi »

I would like to request a HOW-TO on how to set up (Open)LDAP, so I can use that as authentication for Apache, Subversion, Samba and possibly others.
If it also describes how to make it all secure, that would be awesome!

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#31 Post by craigevil »

How To Set Up A Ubuntu/Debian LAMP Server | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_debian_lamp_server

Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Etch) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
http://www.howtoforge.com/chroot_ssh_sftp_debian_etch

Granted this one is for ubuntu, but the basics and packages should be pretty much the same:
OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
http://www.howtoforge.com/openldap-samb ... ubuntu7.10

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How To

#32 Post by kamaliitm »

Hey frenz.....Am new to linux...........

Can anyone please tell me HOW TO "create a document in linux" ......Am using debian......

Thanks in advance.....

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Re: How To

#33 Post by oswaldkelso »

kamaliitm wrote:Hey frenz.....Am new to linux...........

Can anyone please tell me HOW TO "create a document in linux" ......Am using debian......

Thanks in advance.....
g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ ## An easy way to create a new blank file in your current directory is with the touch command.

g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ touch name_of_blank_file
g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ ls
name_of_blank_file

g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ ## Or with an editor like nano

g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ nano doc1
g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ ## nano will open with a blank file called doc1 write your stuff and save file. control o and return to save. control x to exit. then y or n to save or not if you have not already saved the file.
g5@debian1333:~/lessons$## to read any manuals type man then the name of the programme.
g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ man nano


g5@debian1333:~/lessons$ ls
doc1 name_of_blank_file

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#34 Post by kamaliitm »

Thank you

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#35 Post by kamaliitm »

Thank you :)

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#36 Post by KOTAPAKA »

Here is an issue that sounds simple but is in fact quite complicated. If you have a HDD with say 6-7 NTFS partitions and you connect it to Debian it is mounted automatically and most likely the partitions will be mounted to /media/disk-# where # is a number (1,2,3,4...). Now every time you connect your HDD to your computer it mounts under different mount points. For example you have 3 partitions 30,60 and 90 GB ones. 1st mount they are in the order disk-1 disk-2 disk-3 respectively. Next time they are in another order i.e. the 30 Gb is now mounted to disk-2 the 60 Gb to disk-3 and the 90 to disk-1. It is a bit irritating but when you have a program that relies on constant pathnames it becomes a problem. The only solution I've found is to connect the HDD to a Windows computer and name the partitions. Placing a line in fstab doesn't work because only the root can mount and the ntfs-3g driver doesn't accept the users or user options in fstab. I think a howto will be very useful not only for me.

PS I have solved it for myself - used a Windows computer. I've seen a lot of people on the net have stumbled upon this issue and I haven't found a descent solution so far.
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#37 Post by TRS-80 »

Anyone got a good howto on setting up an SSL CA? Preferably one that goes into the theory behind SSL a bit. I need it for my LDAP for the Lazy Sysadmin howto and don't really want to write it myself.

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#38 Post by Redbaron »

I'm looking for a good howto for installing Debian Lenny testing and additional info on custom and stock kernels and how to install each

Thanks
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#39 Post by daengbo »

KOTAPAKA wrote:The only solution I've found is to connect the HDD to a Windows computer and name the partitions. Placing a line in fstab doesn't work because only the root can mount and the ntfs-3g driver doesn't accept the users or user options in fstab. I think a howto will be very useful not only for me.
No need for a Howto. Just use labels instead of device names in /etc/fstab

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#40 Post by TRS-80 »

TRS-80 wrote:Anyone got a good howto on setting up an SSL CA? Preferably one that goes into the theory behind SSL a bit. I need it for my LDAP for the Lazy Sysadmin howto and don't really want to write it myself.
Turns out openvpn has one http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentat ... o.html#pki

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