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[Ulfwald]

I am currently running Mandrake 10 on an AMD 700 with 256 megs of ram, 20 gig hdd, as a workstation. I want to promote this up to a Server, running DHCP, DNS, and Apache Web server. What do I need to do to promote this, and what do i need to do once it is up and running to get these services working.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Make sure you have applied all applicable patches.
Install dhcpd, bind, and apache.
Correctly configure dhcpd, bind, and apache.
Test dhcpd, bind, and apache.
Configure clients to use dhcpd, bind, and apache. 😛

 

[Ulfwald]

OK, QUESTION IS,

HOW?

I am a total newb to linux, other than using it as a workstation to check email and browse.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Do you want to do it by compiling source or installing Mandrake packages? I'll work on a bit of documentation that *might* help, but there is a lot of things you'll have to read up on on your own. 😉

I've got a couple of docs, but some editting is necessary, I'll post them in a bit when they're presentable. So far I have a compiling Apache 2 doc, and a brief section on configuring a standard dhcpd. But nothing on bind at the moment.

 

[n0cmonkey]

To install Apache by using Mandrake RPMs, you will have to find the rpm and use a command like (check syntax, I don't use rpms): rpm --install httpd_blah.rpm blah will probably be replaced by the version.

Here are instructions by source. The version is WAY behind now:

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Apache 2.0.43 installation:

You will need to unzip and untar the downloaded file (httpd-2.0.43.tar.gz in this case) into a temporary area with enough space (50mB recommended). Download

the latest version of Apache (1.3 or 2.0) from http://httpd.apache.org.
Current latest versions (20.12.2002):
1.3.27
2.0.43





$ cd /tmp
$ gunzip httpd-2.0.43.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf httpd-2.0.43.tar
$ cd httpd-2.0.43

For this installation we will be configuring apache to install in the /web directory. No other non-default configurations will be made at this time in this

example. Information on further configuration will be provided in another how-to (will place link here when done).

$ ./configure --prefix="/web"
checking for chosen layout...
. . . bunch of configure options and tests
include/ap_config_auto.hconfig.status: executing default commands
$ PATH="$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin"$ export PATH

We need both make and gmake in the $PATH, not sure why at this time
$ gmake
Making all in srclibgmake[1]:
Entering directory `/tmp/httpd-2.0.43/srclib'
Making all in aprgmake[2]:
. . . More make information
socket -lnsl -lresolv -ldlgmake[1]:
Leaving directory `/tmp/httpd-2.0.43'
$ su -
We need to be root to install the software.
Password:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic Patch October 2001 # gmake install We will need to have our $PATH set very similar to the previous $PATH
# gmake install
Making install in srclibgmake[1]:
Entering directory `/tmp/httpd-2.0.43/srclib'
. . .more make install stuff
/web/manualInstalling build system filesgmake[1]:
Leaving directory `/tmp/httpd-2.0.43'
# cd /web
# ls -l
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 build
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1024 Dec 19 10:11 error
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1024 Dec 19 10:11 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 3584 Dec 19 10:11 icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 2560 Dec 19 10:11 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:10 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 logs
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Dec 18 09:37 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 man
drwxr-xr-x 14 root other 3072 Dec 19 10:11 manual
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 19 10:11 modules


Everything is now installed into /web.

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Cleaning up dhcpd docs, but here it is so far. This doesn't cover MANY of the options, and probably doesn't cover all of the options you will need/want. I'm going to try and add more information, but I don't have any way to test anything I type here. 😉 But the man pages are quite good:

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dhcpd.conf example:
shared-network netboot-network {
option domain-name "netboot-network";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.131.1;
allow bootp;
deny unknown-clients;

subnet 192.168.131.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.131.1;
host client.netboot-network{
hardware ethernet 8:0:20:1b:1:e3;
fixed-address 192.168.131.10;
allow booting;
}
}
}

Ok, to try and explain each option:

shared-network netboot-network { This is basically a quick description of the stuff that follows. You can see in my example that this is a netboot network.

option domain-name "netboot-network"; This is the domain that the clients use. ie. example.com

option domain-name-servers 192.168.131.1; This is the DNS server the clients will be configured to use.

allow bootp; This is required for netboot networks utilizing bootp, don't use this option if you do not need it.

deny unknown-clients; This will not allow you to just put a new machine on the network and have it work, some manual configuration will be necessary.

subnet 192.168.131.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { This declares the subnet that will be utilizing this part of the configuration.

option routers 192.168.131.1; This configures the default route (gateway) for the clients.

host client.netboot-network{ This sets the name for the particular machine being configured by dhcpd.

hardware ethernet 8:0:20:1b:1:e3; This identifies that particular client.

fixed-address 192.168.131.10; This gives the client an ip address.

allow booting; I believe this again allows the netboot stuff to work. You probably won't need this. 😉

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BIND is a little too big for me to be able to do something tonight. Plus, I haven't tried v9. Last version I used was v4. 😛

Please post questions, as they can improve any documentation I play around with. 😉

 

[Ulfwald]

ok, here is what I am doing.

I am going to set up the mandrake server frome the ground up. Complete reinstall (I sold the system it was running on).

While installing, I am going to install all the server software. as well as the mail server, and web server. once installed, I will have to see about then establishing it as part of the Windows 2000 Domain I am currently running. The domain is an AD Domain. also, is their something like the Red hat WEBMIN tool panel in mandrake?

 

[Sunner]

Doesn't Mandrake come with that urpmi thingy?
Haven't used Mandrake in a really long time, so I'm not that familiar with it, but I thought urpmi was supposed to help with stuff like this?