GNU-Linux

So, you're the latest Agaric intern (or a founder who's forgotten everything) and you need to put a client on a new server, and you want to continue using the Agaric repository system.

You've found the right page.

Resolution

If you have to begin at the beginning (but not all the way at the beginning) include this first command, throwing in sudos as required throughout:

apt-get install subversion

Agaric procedure for taking a site that was sharing a Drupal codebase with a bunch of other sites standalone.

Download a new Drupal. http://drupal.org/project/drupal

SVN export the current agaric-sites/5/project-name/trunk/sitename.com directory to replace (and rename as) default.

Check the whole thing in.

(If you're starting from the beginning, download a starter CD.)

Note: Take time to look at each statement and what it runs.

All of this is from: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch

apt-get install ssh openssh-server

vi /etc/network/interfaces

In there, this is the important part to change:

Your server telling you there's no file called locatedb when you try to locate, well, something else? The command below should fix you.

Resolution

updatedb

Tell Ubuntu or Debian GNU-Linux where to look for package sources, for instance, tell Ubuntu or Debian not to look at the CD.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Resolution

This was tried on a completely empty installation. If it actually matters, you are advised to consult your nearest neighborhood GNU-Linux sysadmin.

And of course your first step would be to back up everything.

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It's possible now in Drupal 5:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/rename-database.html

Resolution

But you're better off just not doing it. The process isn't any easier than exporting the DB and reimporting, as you have to associate the user by hand anyway.

So I needed FTP in a pinch.

PureFTP was the first that got me to the install instructions:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/pureftp.htm

sudo apt-get install pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd
sudo groupadd ftpgroup
sudo useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser
sudo pure-pw useradd agaric -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/agaric
sudo pure-pw mkdb

It appeared to be successful.

We're setting up

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Resolution

This is most curious. URL path rewriting to allow clean urls (no ?q= in Drupal) work just fine on all the sites on the server except those that are accessed through the port that directs

I've checked out the rules in the sites-available configuration files and all of this is exactly the same.

Somewhere there must be port-specific rules that set up URL rewriting for the normal port 80 only?

I removed "Indexes" that followed Options and indented the Order allow etc commands, so that it looks identical to its live sibling, just a tad higher in the same file: