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Ubuntu Server

Installation

• Select an appropriate hostname/URL for this service. At Stellenbosch University we selected http://www.journals.ac.za for production and http://journals.sun.ac.za for training/development.
• Create a server, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit.
• Use 250GB disk storage and 4GB memory.
• Use 20GB for the root partition and the rest for var partition. Swap is about 4GB.
• During installation, when "tasksel" pops-up, select to install the OpenSSH server.
• Also during installation, select to have software security updates done automatically.

After Installation and Network Setup

• After installation, login remotely using SSH and setup local repositories and perform a software upgrade.

sudo -i

cd /etc/apt

wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/files/sources.list-14.04

cp sources.list-14.04 sources.list

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot

Extra Software

• Run the following and install the LAMP Stack

 tasksel

• For OJS and OCS

apt-get install php5-cli php5-curl php5-xmlrpc php5-pear php-pear ttf-freefont catdoc antiword pstotext libxalan2-java libsaxon-java postfix lynx-cur poppler-utils

• For System Admin

apt-get install phpmyadmin mc ntp git-core mailutils

• Edit ntp conf file.

nano /etc/ntp.conf

• For IBM Tivoli backups

http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/IBM_Tivoli

• For VMWARE guest (If applicable)

http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/VMWare-Tools

Setup Postfix Email

• Setup mail gateway through the local campus email server mail.sun.ac.za.

dpkg-reconfigure postfix

• Deliver root email to scholar@sun.ac.za.

nano /etc/aliases

newaliases

Apache

• Enable mod_rewrite

 a2enmod rewrite

• Setup Apache permissions. AllowOverride All in config file.

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

• Setup PHP file limits

nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change the following

• upload_max_filesize to 1000M.
• post_max_size to 1000M.
• max_execution_time to 300

Remove the mcrypt error.

nano /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini

Remove the commented line.

• Restart Apache web server

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Campus Firewall

1. Take note of the IP address and create a change control request on RTAD to open ports 80 and 443 on the campus firewall for the virtual server.
2. Check status of open hosts on: https://maties2.sun.ac.za/rtad4/useradm