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101: Postfix

Postfix is an SMTP server MTA (Mail transfer agent) which handles sending and receiving emails. Install like so: sudo apt-get install postfix libsasl2-modules You will need ports 25 and ports 587 open on the firewall for SMTP and SSMTP.

Configuring

Open the postfix config file:

sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf

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101: ejabbered

ejabbered is a popular XMPP server to facilitate instant messaging.

Please replace all 'mydomain.com' with your own domain in the below configuration.

Kill all ejabberd processes:

killall beam beam.smp epmd ejabberd

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101: MySQL Reinstall

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql*

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101: Ubuntu Initial Setup

Updating & Upgrading

To start off with it is wise to to update aptitude, upgrade the system and finally auto remove any unneeded packages.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove

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101: OpenSSL

sudo apt-get install openssl gnutls-bin ssl-cert

Creating the /etc/ssl/custom directory

sudo mkdir /etc/ssl/custom

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101: OpenVPN

You might need to ask your hosting provider to enable TUN.

sudo apt-get install openvpn openvpn-blacklist

Create the static key

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101: OpenLDAP

LDAP runs on port 389

LDAPS runs on port 636

Ubuntu Guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/openldap-server.html

Debian Guide: http://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/OpenLDAPSetup

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101: Java

Current Version: 1.7.0_09-b05 x64

Download the lastest version from Oracle. You want Java 7 SE edition:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

You want the JDK version as this will include the JRE as well. Oracle require you to accept an agreement to download so you won't be able to wget the link from your server. So download it to your local machine and SCP it. Get the Linux x64 tar.gz version.

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101: Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

Setup the default site (/var/www)

To host your own custom website, you will want to use the /var/www folder for your files.

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101: PhpMyAdmin

https://mydomain.com:445/pma

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

By default, an apache phpmyadmin.conf file is placed in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf which links a conf file in the phpmyadmin installation. Its is better to manage the various websites via ssl encrypted virtual hosts.