Linux Basement Tutorials

Asterisk from source on Hardy Server

chad — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:26:05 -0500

**NOTE: This document is still under construction***

Asterisk from Source Ubuntu Hardy

Fresh hardy install with only SSH and base packages.

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential automake autoconf bison flex libtool libncurses5-dev libssl-dev subversion

cd /usr/src

svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk asterisk svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.4 zaptel svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/trunk libpri

Installing Django

chad — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:28:27 -0500

Truth be told, it is rather easy to get a test server up and running using the packaged web server that comes right with Django Trunk, but in this tutorial, I do throw in the apt-get install commands to install apache2 and mysql, but actually getting a production server up and running using mod_python and mysql is beyond the scope of this document. It also is unecessary, because Django has some phenominal documation, and I highly recommend continuing on with your Django education at both Django.com and www.djangobook.com

Django on Hardy

Installing Moodle

chad — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:03:30 -0500

Installing Moodle

What is Moodle?

From moodle.org

Preparing for Drupal 6 and Installing

chad — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:18:31 -0500

Preparing for Drupal and Moodle

We have to do serveral more things to prepare the server and database for Drupal. The first thing is we need to enable mod-rewrite and also make a quick change to the default apache2 configuration file for sites-available.

First, lets go ahead and enable mod-rewrite by entering the following at the command prompt:

Installing Hardy Server - Part II - Getting Web Ready

chad — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:09:52 -0500

Now it is time to log into your server. Remember that you have to log in with the username/password that you created durring the installation process.

For our purposes, we need to configure root access. To do this, you must issue the root user a password.

sudo passwd root

You will notice that you are first promted for your password, and then prompted twice to enter a password for root. Now that you have a password, you can change into root by typing: