Ubuntu Server Setup
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Turn on Mod Rewrite
1. a2enmod rewrite 2. restart apache server 3. edit vhost file AllowOverride all
Shell Scripting
• Scripts must be chmod 755 so they can execute
• #!/bin/bash (add to the top of the shell script so it can use the bash shell to interpret the script, you can also add python or other shell programs)
• Postional Parameters: $0 ... $9 $@ to access all 0-9 // like in a loop
• Exit Status return Codes: Range from 0 to 255: 0 = success: Other than 0 = error condition: use man or info to find meanign of exit status
&bull, $? contains the return code of the previously executed command
ls /not/here
echo "$?"
Another Code example
HOST="google.com"
ping -c 1 $HOST # -c 1 means it will send 1 ping
if["$?" -eg "0"]
then
echo "$HOST reachable"
else
"$HOST unreachable"
fi
&& and ||
-the second statement only executes if the first one was successfull
mkdir /tmp/bak && cp test.txt /tmp/bak/
-the second statement will execute only if the first one fails
cp test.txt /tmp/bak/ || cp test.txt /tmp
• chain multiple commands together using a ; (semicolon) cp test.txt /tmp/ ; cp test.txt /bak
File Operators (test)
-d FILE -true if is a directory -e FILE True if file exists -f FILE True if file exist and is a regular file -r FILE True if file is readable by you -s FILE True if file exists and is not empty -w FILE True if file is writable by you -x FILE True if file is executable by you -z FILE True if string is empty -n FILE True if string is not empty String1=String2 true if strings are equal String1 != string2 True if the strings are not equal arg1 -eq arg2 equal arg1 -ne arg2 not equal arg1 -lt arg2 less than arg1 -le arg2 less than or equal to arg1 -gt arg2 greater than arg1 -ge arg2 greater than or equal to read -p "Prompt to dispaly" VarableName accepting user input
for loop to rename all jpg files with the date
#!/bin/bash
PICTURES=$(ls *.jpg)
DATE=$ (date +%F)
for PICTURES IN $PICTURES
do
echo "Renaming ${PICTURE} to ${DATE} - ${PICTURE}"
mv $[PICTUE} ${DATE}-${PICTURE}
done
// Output
renaming bear.jpg to 2015-03-06-bear.jpg
Adding exit commands to scripts
#!/bin/bash
HOST="google.com"
ping -c 1 $HOST
IF [ "$?" -ne"0" ]
then
echo "$HOST unrechale"
exit 1
fi
exit 0
Creating a Function
function function-name() {# code goes here}
Calling a Function
function hello() {
echo "hello:
}
hello (you don't need the () just call the name of the function)
** Positional Parameters and passing info to a funciton
#!/bin/bash
function hello(){
echo "hello $1"
}
hello robert # robert is passed to the function hello
#output is hello Robert
** Outputting miltple calls to a function
#!/bin/bahs
funciton hello() {
for NAME in $@
do
echo "Hello $NAME"
done
}
hello robert bob dan
Output
hello robert bob dan
Using Wildcards
* -matches zero or more characters
*.txt
a*
a*.txt
? - matches exactly one character
?.txt
a?
a?.txt
[] character class - matches any of the characters included between the brackets. Matches exactly one character.
[aeiou]* exampld: ls -la [abge]*
ca[nt] matches:(it will match either the n or the t)
can, cat, candy, catch
[!] Matches any characters NOT included between the brackets. Matches exactly one character.
[!aeiou]* would match below bacause it does not start with any of those letters
baseball, cricket
Select a range
[a-g]* matches files that start with a,b,c,d,e,f,g
[3-6]* matches all files start with 3,4,5,6
Using predefined Character Classes
[[:alpha:]]
[[:alnum:]]
[[:digit:]]
[[:lower:]]
[[:upper:]]
[[:space:]]
#!/bin/bash
cd /var/www/bash
# there's a space after the "if", space afer ! then a space after "[", space before "]"
if [ ! -d /var/www/bash/text/ ]
then
mkdir /var/www/bash/text
fi
for FILE in *.txt
do
echo "Copying $FILE"
cp $FILE /var/www/bash/text
done
Case Statements
Simple Backup bash shell script
#!/bin/bash tar -czf myhome_directory.tar.gz /home/linuxconfig Your backup script and variables: #!/bin/bash OF=myhome_directory_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz tar -czf $OF /home/linuxconfig We can use while loop to check if file does not exists. This script will sleep until file does exists. Note bash negator "!" which negates the -e option. #!/bin/bash while [ ! -e myfile ]; do # Sleep until file does exists/is created sleep 1 done
Apache Commands
- List apache packages and versions
- dpkg -l | grep apache
- shows version of ubnuntu
- cat /etc/issue
- shows version of ubuntu
- cat /etc/*-release
- give detail status of the service
- apachectl status
- Gives info on where config file is located
- apachectl -V
- Search the entire server for the file
- find / | grep "apache2\.conf"
- Info for each line in the .conf File
- Displays Config Info about all Virtual Hosts
- apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS
- Display All Modules form Apache
- apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES
- Enable and Disable Modules
- Directory for Modules
- /etc/apache2/modes-available and /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
- a2enmod and a2dismod will enable of disable modules
- Find where the apache error log is located
- grep -Ri ErrorLog /etc/apache2
- Watch Error log in realtime
- tail -f error.log
- Tools to Analize log files
- AWStats - awstats.sourceforge.net
- GoAccess - Terminal app
- goaccess.prosoftcorp.com
Using SMTP to send email
apt-get install php-pear pear install Mail pear install Net_SMTP restart apache ## you have to include this in your code. require_once 'Mail.php'; ## there is a lot more info you have to provide. do a search or pear mail
Setting up Postfix to send mail
sudo apt-get install postfix Options Satellite domain.com smtp server= ip address or smtp.domain.com service restart postfix Postfix config file /etc/postfix/main.cf
Giving Root Privileges to another Account
edit /etc/sudoers.tmp #User previlege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL)ALL # copy the settings of the root and adapt it to your username alex ALL=(ALL:ALL)ALL
Installing Node.js
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js apt-get update apt-get install nodejs npm
Search Repositories
sudo apt-cache search python will search the cached repo of all python
Changing Mac Address Linux
ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig wlan0 hw ether de:ad:be:ef:co:fe ifconfig wlan0 up ifconfig wlan0 | grep HWaddr
Repair Perl Locale Errors on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales if that dosent work then try this export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales
Remove Old host keys from Known_hosts
ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R 192.168.20.133
Sync Time with ntp server
Using the command line, you can use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Follow instructions install ntp sudo apt-get install ntp
Setting up a Cron Job
Using cron
Use the personal crontab to setup your jobs
type
crontab -e ** use the -e switch, do not edit the file directly
Everthing is the same as below except the 6th space in the personal crontab is the field to execute as oposed to the user to run the job
example
* * * * * /backup/script.sh
as opposed to
* * * * * root /backup/script.sh
crontab -l - shows scheduled jobs
crontab -r remove the current crontab file
In the /etc directory you will probably find some sub directories called
'cron.hourly', 'cron.daily', 'cron.weekly' and 'cron.monthly'. If you place
a script into one of those directories it will be run either hourly, daily,
weekly or monthly, depending on the name of the directory.
If you want more flexibility than this, you can edit a crontab (the name
for cron's config files). The main config file is normally /etc/crontab.
On a default RedHat install, the crontab will look something like this:
root@pingu # cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
The first part is almost self explanatory; it sets the variables for cron.
SHELL is the 'shell' cron runs under. If unspecified, it will default to
the entry in the /etc/passwd file.
PATH contains the directories which will be in the search path for cron
e.g if you've got a program 'foo' in the directory /usr/cog/bin, it might
be worth adding /usr/cog/bin to the path, as it will stop you having to use
the full path to 'foo' every time you want to call it.
MAILTO is who gets mailed the output of each command. If a command cron is
running has output (e.g. status reports, or errors), cron will email the output
to whoever is specified in this variable. If no one if specified, then the
output will be mailed to the owner of the process that produced the output.
HOME is the home directory that is used for cron. If unspecified, it will
default to the entry in the /etc/passwd file.
Now for the more complicated second part of a crontab file.
An entry in cron is made up of a series of fields, much like the /etc/passwd
file is, but in the crontab they are separated by a space. There are normally
seven fields in one entry. The fields are:
minute hour dom month dow user cmd
minuteThis controls what minute of the hour the command will run on,
and is between '0' and '59'
hourThis controls what hour the command will run on, and is specified in
the 24 hour clock, values must be between 0 and 23 (0 is midnight)
domThis is the Day of Month, that you want the command run on, e.g. to
run a command on the 19th of each month, the dom would be 19.
monthThis is the month a specified command will run on, it may be specified
numerically (0-12), or as the name of the month (e.g. May)
dowThis is the Day of Week that you want a command to be run on, it can
also be numeric (0-7) or as the name of the day (e.g. sun).
userThis is the user who runs the command.
cmdThis is the command that you want run. This field may contain
multiple words or spaces.
Fields
.---------------- minute (0 - 59)
| .------------- hour (0 - 23)
| | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
| | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
| | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
| | | | |
* * * * *
If you don't wish to specify a value for a field, just place a * in the
field.
e.g.
01 * * * * root echo "This command is run at one min past every hour"
17 8 * * * root echo "This command is run daily at 8:17 am"
17 20 * * * root echo "This command is run daily at 8:17 pm"
00 4 * * 0 root echo "This command is run at 4 am every Sunday"
* 4 * * Sun root echo "So is this"
42 4 1 * * root echo "This command is run 4:42 am every 1st of the month"
01 * 19 07 * root echo "This command is run hourly on the 19th of July"
Notes:
Under dow 0 and 7 are both Sunday.
If both the dom and dow are specified, the command will be executed when
either of the events happen.
e.g.
* 12 16 * Mon root cmd
Will run cmd at midday every Monday and every 16th, and will produce the
same result as both of these entries put together would:
* 12 16 * * root cmd
* 12 * * Mon root cmd
Vixie Cron also accepts lists in the fields. Lists can be in the form, 1,2,3
(meaning 1 and 2 and 3) or 1-3 (also meaning 1 and 2 and 3).
e.g.
59 11 * * 1,2,3,4,5 root backup.sh
Will run backup.sh at 11:59 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
as will:
59 11 * * 1-5 root backup.sh
Cron also supports 'step' values.
A value of */2 in the dom field would mean the command runs every two days
and likewise, */5 in the hours field would mean the command runs every
5 hours.
e.g.
* 12 10-16/2 * * root backup.sh
is the same as:
* 12 10,12,14,16 * * root backup.sh
*/15 9-17 * * * root connection.test
Will run connection.test every 15 mins between the hours or 9am and 5pm
Lists can also be combined with each other, or with steps:
* 12 1-15,17,20-25 * * root cmd
Will run cmd every midday between the 1st and the 15th as well as the 20th
and 25th (inclusive) and also on the 17th of every month.
* 12 10-16/2 * * root backup.sh
is the same as:
* 12 10,12,14,16 * * root backup.sh
When using the names of weekdays or months, it isn't case sensitive, but only
the first three letters should be used, e.g. Mon, sun or Mar, jul.
Comments are allowed in crontabs, but they must be preceded with a '#', and
must be on a line by them self.
scp without password - keygen
Generate a public/private key pair on the local machine.
ssh-keygen -t rsa
In response, you should see:
Generating public/private rsa key pair
Enter file in which to save the key ...
Press Enter to accept this.
In response, you should see:
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
You don't need a passphrase, so press Enter twice.
In response, you should see:
Your identification has been saved in ...
Your public key has been saved in ...
Note the name and location of the public key just generated. It always ends in .pub.
Copy the public key id_rsa.pub just generated to all of your remote Linux boxes. You can use scp or FTP or whatever to make the copy. Assuming you're using root--again, see my warning in step 1--the key must be contained in the file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Or, if you are logging in as a user, for example, clyde, it would be in /home/clyde/authorized_keys. Notice that the authorized_keys file can contain keys from other PCs. So, if the file already exists and contains text, you need to append the contents of your public key file to what already is there
cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
The files are stored in root/.ssh
if the authorized_keys file does not exist create it and copy the id_rsa.pub from the other machine and paste in the authorized_keys file
do it for each machine so each machine has the other .pub info inthe authorized_key file
if the file already exist, just edit it and paste the other machine's .pub info.
Virtual Host Setup to display domain without the www
Setup Virtual host so www.domain.com works and domain.com works. ServerName www.domain.com ServerAlias domain.com This will allow the domain to come up with the www
Finding out Package Dependencies with apt-redepends
1 Installing apt-rdepends apt-rdepends can be installed as follows: apt-get install apt-rdepends If you are on Ubuntu and are not logged in as root, use sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends apt-rdepends can be used as follows: apt-rdepends <packagename> For example, to find out all dependencies of the package wget, run: apt-rdepends wget For most packages, the output is even longer and might not fit on your screen. In these cases you can pipe the output into more (or less), e.g. as follows: apt-rdepends apache2 | more apt-rdepends apache2 | less
Set Time zone in Ubuntu Server
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Installing Java in Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin
Install Lamp with 1 command
Open terminal and Type the command :install it first with sudo apt-get install tasksel Now to install LAMP, type "tasksel" in terminal : And select LAMP Server: During the installation you will be asked to insert the mysql root password Now check if php is working : $sudo vi /var/www/info.php and add 1. 2. phpinfo(); 3. ?> save and exit restart apache2 , #sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Now open browser and type : http://ip/info.php or http://localhost/info.php Php is installed. To full manage your lamp Server database, install phpmyadmin sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin To login to phpmyadmin, open browser and type : http://ip/phpmyadmin or http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Remove mysql
dpkg -l | grep mysql sudo dpkg -P –force-all <package name>
Manually install apache2, php5 mysql
sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install mysql-server 6 Getting MySQL Support In PHP5 To get MySQL support in PHP, we can install the php5-mysql package. It's a good idea to install some other PHP5 modules as well as you might need them for your applications. You can search for available PHP5 modules like this: aptitude search php5 Pick the ones you need and install them like this: aptitude install php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-json Now restart Apache2:
How to check Ubuntu's version
cat /etc/issue uname -a : print all information uname -r : print the kernel release uname -v : print the kernel version uname -o : print the operating system
Installing Curl in ubuntu
sudo apt-get install php5-curl Now you have PHP cURL installed, the next thing you need to do is to restart apache2, run the following command in your terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart