Ubuntu

Preparing a Ubuntu (or other distro) Web Server for Drupal

Submitted by jbellendir on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 18:10

So I recently created a VMware application with Ubuntu to test some of my Drupal sites offline. You can easily install Ubuntu by downloading one of their Images, I recommend 8.04.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) as it comes with Php 5.2. Anything after Hardy Heron comes with PHP 5.3 which causes issues with Drupal 6. If you are using Drupal 7 or newer, than it probably wont matter. But as most of us our probably on Drupal 6, I thought I would mention this.

So just download the server version and run through the installation. It's pretty straitforward and at one point it will ask if you want to install optional services. Install the LAMP, OpenSSH, and anything else you will want. Now you should have a running server with a basic LAMP install running. You will want to edit a few things so that it plays nicely with Drupal.

Drupal uses a bit of memory, so let's increase this first. Edit your php.ini and my.cnf files.

# nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Search for max_allowed_packet, there will be two occurrences, increase the limit to whatever you see fit, I push mine to 128M.

# nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini Read more »

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Ubuntu - How to Install and Setup Samba File Sharing

Submitted by jbellendir on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 15:48

Install Samba

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

Then edit the config file

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find the Authentication section which is marked with a header of

'####### Authentication #######' and make the following changes.

Uncomment the security line and add a line

security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

Now let's add a Samba user by running this command:

# sudo smbpasswd -a <username>

it will then ask you to set a password and confirm

next we will create the file we referenced above and add this

user we just added.

# sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbusers

Add the ubuntu username which you want mapped to the current user

you just added to samba.

Something like this:

<ubuntu-username> = "<samba username>"

save file and exit

Now setup which folders to share

# sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find the Share definition section by looking for this

"#======================= Share Definitions

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