Creating Neo

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net install

To begin with, you'll need a Debian network install CD. You can download the .iso from here and burn it to a CD in minutes. Be sure to select the right file to match the hardware you are using. Neo is 32-bit intel, so I chose debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso.

Boot from the CD, and respond to the prompts.

  • hostname: neo
  • domain: richmond.ml
  • root password: (blank) yes, that means leave it blank
  • user: admin1
  • password: ***** (such words are censored)
  • guided partitioning:
    • use the whole disk
    • all files in one partition
    • write to disk
    • yes
  • mirror site: Positive-Internet
  • proxy info: (blank)
  • select software to install
    • NO: Desktop
    • YES: Web server
    • YES: Print server
    • NO: SQL database
    • YES: DNS server
    • YES: File server
    • YES: Mail server
    • YES: SSH server
    • NO: Laptop
    • YES: System utilities

Log in as admin1

Let it reboot, then it prompts for a login

neo login: admin1

password: *****

Add users

sudo adduser andres

password *****

Name, room, phone... (blank)

Same for other users: arthur, dan, ianb....

Set a static IP on the LAN

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

delete or comment out the eth0 dhcp line

add instead:

 iface eth0 inet static
 address 192.168.1.40
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 network 192.168.1.0
 broadcast 192.168.1.255
 gateway 192.168.1.1

Set up DNS Resolution

sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

Assuming you're not doing any DNS-related things specific to your local network, you can use Google's public DNS servers

replace the contents of this file with:

 nameserver 8.8.8.8
 nameserver 8.8.4.4

Install MySQL and PHP

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

  • password for mysql admin root user: *****

sudo apt-get install php5 php-pear php5-mysql

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

  • webserver to run phpadmin: apache2
  • configure database? YES, password: *****
  • password for phpadmin register with server: (blank)

Configure virtual hosts

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

sudo cp 000-default 001-neo

sudo vi 001-neo

insert new lines:

 ServerName neo.richmondmakerlabs.uk
 ServerAlias neo

change lines to:

 DocumentRoot /var/www/public_html
 Directory / AllowOverride All
 Directory /var/www/public_html AllowOverride All

sudo cp 001-neo 002-littlehouse

change lines to:

 ServerName littlehouse.richmondmakerlabs.uk
 ServerAlias littlehouse

sudo cp 001-neo 003-kit

change lines to:

 ServerName kit.richmondmakerlabs.uk
 ServerAlias kit

cd ../sites-enabled

ln -s ../sites-available/001-neo 001-neo

ln -s ../sites-available/002-littlehouse 002-littlehouse

ln -s ../sites-available/003-kit 003-kit

Establish the web space

cd /var/www

sudo mkdir public_html

sudo mkdir neo

sudo mkdir kit

cd public_html

sudo vi index.html

  <html><body><h1>neo.richmondmakerlabs.uk</h1>
  <p>This is the permanent server at Little House.</p>
  <p> Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP < /p>
  <p> see php info < a href="phpinfo.php">here</a></p>
  </body></html> 
 

sudo vi phpinfo.php

  <?php
  phpinfo();
  ?>
 

Reboot

sudo shutdown -r now

The web site should now be working, htttp://littlehouse.richmondmakerlabs.uk

Also littlehouse/phpmyadmin should be there

Give users sudo powers

sudo usermod -a -G sudo andres

sudo usermod -a -G sudo arthur

sudo usermod -a -G sudo ...

MySQl, django

cd

sudo apt-get install mysql-client

sudo apt-get install python-django

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

Create group dev, add developers

sudo addgroup dev

sudo adduser ianb dev

sudo adduser dan dev

Make the web spaces writeable by group dev

sudo chgrp dev kit neo public_html

sudo chmod g+w kit neo public_html