### Installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 ###

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Installed Ubuntu Server 12.04

• openSSH, if not from Install click here.

Disable CTL-ALT-DEL

• here.

HostName and TimeZone

• Setup.
  

Apply Patches

Audit/Log user activity.

• here

Disks and mounts.

• Mount and Format disk…here.
• NFS – NetWork File Share, (Linux/UNIX only).
  • Server here.
  • Client here.
  • Issues here.
    
• Samba File Share, (If windows needs access, click here).

Backup Jobs.

• Job here.

Performance tool (server then desktop)

• $ sudo apt-get install nmon –> here.
• $ sudo apt-get install htop –> here.
• Install sensors for monitoring –>here.
• Xosview –> here.

Ability to Search for packages

• sudo apt-get install aptitude
• sudo aptitude search <package part>

Application Setup

• Java setup here.
• WebMin here and info here.
• VirtualBox
  • VBoxHeadless setup here.
  • VBoxHeadless remote web manage here.
• Apache2
  • w/ Mono here.
  • Restore mono apps here.
  • w/ SSL setup here.
  • Connect using Mod JK AJP-Connector.
  • LoadBalancer connection here.
  • Host HTML pages with QBW-FrontPage here.
  • Mass HOSTS with mod_rewrite here (Catch ALL??).
  • Resolve apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name here.
• Tomcat
  • Tomcat Multi instance apt-get config here.
  • Tomcat Multi instance manual config here.
  • Connect with JMX here.
  • https://java.qbytesworld.com/post/Tomcat-and-Apache-Setup-With-LB.aspx

• MySQL
  • Setup here.
  • Setup here.
  • Tools here.
  • Backup here.

• Hudson setup here or as a service here.
• Artifactory setup here.
• Subersion setup here.

Secure the server:

http://library.linode.com/securing-your-server

High availability Ubuntu servers

FTP

SSH should work for most needs (Filezilla), but if FTP is needed

• SFTP over SSH here.
  
• FTP Server here.

CRONTAB

• Setup backups here.
• Clean scripts
• etc….

Startup/Shutdown script

• How to setup here.
  

Update and Patch

• How to update and patch here.