Newbie q's

Hi all, i am new to Unix and building servers.

I am currently looking to build a Ubuntu Server that will host a site, but i also want this server to be able to email as well. So all the contact details for the website get emailed from the same server, could someone telll me if this is possible? is there a how to:?

i will be using the GUI interface, instead of cmd line

thank you in advance

 

Anyone care to offer some advice?

 

99 % of server dont have GUI due to its a waste of memory and unneeded program that is running

most stuff is admin like via control panels like ISPconfig so on
so once installed than you have an web GUI to admin / run it all

do an search at the top for ISPconfig and im sure you will find one for the Ubuntu ver X.XX what your running

 

Yes, that's no problem. http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-8.10

I wouldn't install a desktop on a server because it eats up too many of your resources and is a security risk.

 

Thanks for the link, i have been reading through it

How easy is Unix Ubuntu to use? i have never used a unix based system before?

 

if you doing an following an howto ... it should be almost easy as
just follow the steps

if not
than it may take some trail n errors to get your head around it all
if you got a good friend / place to post problems you run into ... than its easyer than trying one your own
u go batty and gray easy at times

but once you get hang of any linux OS than its simple to use any other one

 

if you need an somewhat UI ... you can try webadmin
it will let u do a lot of via an web UI ... but even than i will personal turn it off when i dont need it

 

Thank you so much for your help. I will let you know how it goes

I think i will just follow the how to.

Is there a way of turning of the GUI as i think that has already been installed

 

if you installed the server edition
there is no GUI at alll
its all command line

 

My friend did this:

<code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</code>

 

The only GUI type admin interface I would suggest is
webmin , www.webmin.com

 

I would like to thank you all for you input.

One last question, can i run firefox on the server?
Do you have any good suggestions for a Unix FTP server? Fillezilla? Double Commander etc?

 

yes, you can use FireFox if you download the correct version.

use (one of) the FTP server(s) that came with the OS.

 

hello again;
i have followed the formentioned tut on setting up the perfect server.

I am able to conect using webmin, whilst inside my home network: using a fixed IP 192.168.1.100

But when i try to conect externally i am unable. Could someone possibley help me on this?

Thank you in advanced

 

192.168 addresses are non-routable, they can not be accessed from outside that address space.
Do you have a routable ip address? Try http://www.myipaddress.com/show-my-ip-address/ from your server and then try to connect to that.
And don't forget to configure webmin to listen at the routable ip address

 

Thanks for your quick response.

I have got my IP, how do i set webmin to listen to that IP address?

Sorry i am really new to Unix systems

 

Thank you very much. Is that for http?

 

So do i need to set up a service on the router?

I have FTP and HTTP services pre-set on the router

 

Thank you very much. Really sorry about asking all the questions. I am brand new to Unix. But am reading alot of stuff about it. So fingers crossed the questions will come to end soon

Thanks again

 

i'm back again.

I have installed the basic LAMP and SSH server software, configured the Network file to look like this:

But i still cannot connect outside of my network. I have set up HTTP and FTP forwarding on my router, and have also set a new service for Webmin on my router as well. Could someone point out where i may be going wrong? Thank you in advance