forked from team/tilde.club
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Preamble
This document will talk you through setting up your own tilde.club flavoured server; the example domain.club
is used below.
Prerequisites
- An Amazon AWS account, though any other cloud provider would work just as well.
- Your own domain
- A thirst for the unknown
Create an instance on Amazon EC2
- On AWS click
Launch Instance
- Select
Amazon Linux AMI
- Select
t2.micro
- Select the (recommended) thingy in the popup
- Click
Launch
- In
Security Groups
right-click:Edit inbound rules
->Add Rule
->HTTP
andSSH
Edit outbound rules
->Add Rule
->HTTP
andHTTPS
- In
Elastic IPs
:- Click
Allocate New Address
- Choose
VPC
on the dropdown (it won't work otherwise, I forget why) - Right click,
Associate Address
- Choose the instance you just created
- Click
- Create an
A record
at your domain name registrar to point at the Elastic IP then wait for those changes to propagate.
NOTE This could take up to 48 hours, use dig domain.club +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
to see if you're in business.
SSH into your shiny instance using your pem
file
ssh -i security.pem ec2-user@domain.club
yum update
sudo yum remove java
sudo yum install git
Change hostname
sudo vim /etc/hosts
changelocalhost.localdomain
todomain.club
sudo vim /etc/sysconfig/network
changelocalhost.localdomain
todomain.club
sudo reboot
Allow passwords to log in
sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
changePasswordAuthentication
toyes
sudo service sshd restart
Create a user bill
with correct permissions
sudo adduser bill
sudo passwd bill
mkdir /home/bill/public_html
sudo chmod 755 /home/bill
Install Apache
sudo yum install httpd
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
:- comment out
UserDir disabled
- uncomment
UserDir public_html
- uncomment the
Control access to UserDir directories
block beginning with<Directory /home/*/public_html>
- comment out
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Install other software
yum install tmux
yum install mutt
yum install irssi
yum install tree
yum install lynx
yum install finger
- etc