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1. Neville Cox on July 27, 2011 2:12 am

   Thanks for your reply
   I have had no problem installing Ubuntu server 11.04, I downloaded the ios burnt to cd and booted the pc from cd all ok, during the install i had the option to add software, so I added LAMP.
   When install finnished I checked the ip address of the server (192.168.1.197) all ok then I set the root password with # sudo passwd root and entered in the password all ok.
   Next get updated
   So i entered in
   # apt-get update all ok
   # apt-get upgrade all ok
   Next I installed Telnet
   # apt-get install telnetd all ok
   restarted server # shutdown -r now all ok
   Switched to another Pc on the network and telneted to the server 192.168.1.197 ok
   The next thing I did was to install proftpd
   # apt-get install proftpd all ok
   The next thing was to configure the shell file so that when I add users to the server they wont be able to telnet to the server, so I typed from root as SU # cd /etc
   Then # vi shells
   at the bottom of that file I added a line
   /bin/false Saved it and exited vi
   typed in # cat shells to check if the changes were saved, all ok
   Next I added a web user
   # cd /var/www
   # mkdir bill
   # Useradd bill –p “my root password” –d /var/www/bill –s /bin/false
   # chown bill bill
   # passwd bill
   I was asked for password so I entered it in
   the next thing was ti install Webmin
   # wget http://www.webmin.com/download.....urrent.deb
   Waited for that to finnish
   # sudo dpkg -i webmin-current.deb
   waited for that to finnish
   got some errors but the next command fixed that
   # sudo apt-get -f install
   So i went to my browser and went to
   http://192.168.1.197:10000 and loged with my root password XXXXXX all ok
   next I installed Webalizer
   # apt-get install webalizer all ok
   I had to go in and make in the webalizer config file of whick would enable wealized to analyz apache web server log file, so I used vi to edit the webalizer config file by removing the “.1” from the end of the logfile entery.
   Then I went to Webmin via https://192.168.1.197:10000 from an other Pc, the clicked on “Scheduled Cron Jobs”, then clicked “Creat A New Schedule Cron Job”, then choose to execute the job as root .
   The commant toexecute is /usr/bin/webalizer, click on”times and Dates Selected below”, under the minutes select and chooes 0,15,30 and 45 for hours, days, months and weeknnds, select “all”
   Thisi all seemed to be ok
   Next I installed phpmyadmin
   # sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
   When i was asked what web server I was using, Ichose apache2 all ok
   So I was all done, it’s great every thing worked but I couldn’t connect to the server via ftp, so I could’t upload files to the web page.
   So I started again a fresh install this time I installed VSFTPD inseted if PROFTPD, Great I now can connect but now I still can not load files, It seems that thers is no public_html folder.
   How do I fix this?
   Your post is good but it looses me, I’m only a newbee HELP!!!

2. UbuntuLinuxHelp on July 27, 2011 11:09 pm

   @Neville

   One of the things many (including myself) don’t do, is select LAMP. Why? Because it pre-installs a generic LAMP server. Instead, it’s better to install a base server and then add the LAMP components as per requirements. ;)

   Better to use aptitude when possible (instead of apt-get). Better to install SSH instead of Telnet.

   Better to add/change users AFTER you’ve installed and got things working. ;) Keeps things less complicated, this way when you have something working, make a change and things don’t work, then you can always go back a step to where everything was working.

   If you cannot upload files, this means that vsftpd is not working as expected (you indicate it’s working?). Have you checked file/directory permissions (chmod)? Have you checked file/directory ownership (chown)?

   When you change ownership of /var/www to ‘bill’, you knocked out the www-data, did you? :(

   You’re correct, there is no “public_html”, instead the path is: /var/www/…

3. UbuntuLinuxHelp on July 27, 2011 11:20 pm

   @neville

   Also…

   Question: Did you edit your /etc/hosts file? It’s hard to tell (I’m not sitting at your server), maybe your FTP app cannot find the server via the hostname you use>
   Question: When you first installed proFTPD, did you: sudo aptitude install proftpd ucf menu? (Did you select “standalone”?)

   I had a similar issue, I could not upload files to the web server (/var/www). I realized that I needed to change the ownership to the correct group www-data so: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

4. Neville Cox on July 29, 2011 5:10 am

   What I have done now is start a hole new clean install, and yes I did install LAMP at the same time. So lets start with Lamp, so what I have done is uninstall LAMP folling an other tutorial and it seemed to work, so now I don’t have lamp.
   So now what is the correct way ti install LAMP ?

   When it comes to my FTP server I installed VSFTPD and I added users into var/www then I enabled public_html and I don’t know if I had done that the correct way, I think I did it also in the var/www directy like this.
   # mkdir ~/public_public
   Then I enabled the user directory
   # ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.conf usredir.conf
   # ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.load userdir.loda

   Then restarted Apache
   # /etc/init.d/apache2 restat

   I must say I lost now

   So as I said above New install with lamp but I have now uninstalled lamp, so if you can help me with this it would be great