MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2008:

Changing TCP/IP Settings:

• Control Panel -> Network and Sharing -> Manage network connections
• Properties -> IP Protocol Version 4
• Should only need the General tab, for IP, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS server

Adding Roles:

• Go to Server Manager
• Click Add Role, and follow the wizard

Configuring DNS:

• Administrative Tools -> DNS
• Right click on your server and go through configuration wizard, supplying your domain name and subnet info (don't do Active Directory integrated)
• Don't forget your forwarder!

Configuring IIS:

• Optionally rename Default Site, configure named servers if desired, alter Document Root if necessary
• Default document root is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\

Adding virtual hosts in IIS

• Right click Web Sites and add new website
• Follow the prompts, and define a Host header value for the web hostname you want
• Don't forget you'd also need DNS entries

Using SSL

• In IIS Manager, go to your server then go to Server Certificates
• Click Create Self-Signed Certificate and fill in hostname
• Now go to the site you just made a certificate for and go to Bindings, and add your SSL port with certificate

Configuring Basic Authentication

• Go to Server Manager, Roles, Web Server
• Add Role Services, and select Basic Authentication
• Go to IIS Manager, and go to your site
• Scroll down and click on Authentication
• Disabled Anonymous Authentication, and enable Basic Authentication

Your DNS not working?

• Check your TCP/IP settings first
• Make sure your DNS zones are correct, along with your forwarder
• Check something like www.google.com to make sure your DNS server and forwarder is working
• Made changes but it still won't work? Start->Run->cmd and issue the following command line: ipconfig /flushdns

UBUNTU LINUX:

Changing TCP/IP Settings:

• Right click on the Networking Icon at the top right of the screen (looks a pair of power cords)
• Setup your wired connection Auto Eth0 with IP, subnet mask, gateway and DNS server

For Installing Packages in General:

• Synaptic is your friend. System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
• Right click on a package, select Mark for Installation, and let it figure out the dependencies
• Forget which group a package is in? Just search by name
• Wanna fast track things? Go to Edit->Mark packages by task. From there you can make your server a DNS and LAMP server and have almost everything installed right away!

Configuring DNS:

• Go to webmin
• Servers -> BIND DNS server
• Create a forward zone, add a host record to that zone
• Create a reverse zone, add an address record to that zone
• Apply changes and restart DNS

Setting up Apache:

• Install apache2, php packages
• Go to webmin
• Servers -> Apache Webserver for configuration
• Your web pages should go in /var/www/html

Adding virtual hosts to Apache

• Go into Webmin, and go under Servers->Apache Webserver
• Click the Create New Virtual Server tab
• Set it to listen on any address
• Set it to listen on port 80
• Set it to listen for the server name (web hostname)
• Create and Apply changes

Using SSL

• Make a directory to hold your certs (i.e., /etc/apache2/certs)
• Navigate to that location, and make your keys and certificate
• Generate private key: sudo openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024
• Generate cert signing request: sudo openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
• Generate certificate: sudo openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
• Now head to Webmin and the Apache config; go to Modules in Global Config and turn SSL on
• Make a new Virtual Host that listens on any address, port 443, on the name you want
• Go to that Virtual Host's options, into SSL options, turn on SSL, and set the certificate and private key
• Apply changes to Apache

Configuring Basic Authentication

• Go into /etc/apache2
• Create a password file: sudo htpasswd -c .htpasswd username
• When prompted, set the password for username
• Go into Webmin, Servers->Apache, and click on the desired Virtual Host
• Scroll down to Per-Directory Options and click on your document root
• Select Basic Authentication for type, enter a Realm Name (make one up)
• Select Restrict access to all valid users
• Select your users text file (/etc/apache2/.htpasswd)

Hints on copying the test files:

• Once you download the zip file, double click to extract
• To copy, you need to open a terminal (under Accessories) and use the cp command
• Syntax: cp source_file destination_file_with_path
• If you're copying to a location not owned by you (DOCUMENT ROOT HINT HINT) make sure you use sudo so you have permissions
• Tip: when you first open a terminal, if you type cd Desktop you'll be in the directory that show what is on your graphical desktop

Installing Webmin

• Go to www.webmin.com and download the Debian installer package
• Double click to install the package
• Open your browser to https://localhost:10000 and add a security exception for the certificate
• Login with the username and password you use to login to the system