Greetings and salutations,
I hope this thread will be helpful to those who follow in my foot steps as well as getting any advice based on what I have done / documented.
This is a Work-In-Progress topic so I will be updating this thread as I complete/update my notes.
When finished, this will be converted to a wiki page.
High-level overview
This document will cover installation of a dedicated Ubuntu server. This will be the "base" installation of the server as a prerequisite for other documents that will build upon it (e.g. MediaWiki and MySQL). The server will be installed inside a virtual machine vSphere 4.1 running on ESXi 4.1 servers. Notes will also be supplied for doing the same thing for Oracle's VirtualBox on a Windows 7 PC. Although there are some VMware-specific and VirtualBox-specific steps, they are very few and the majority of this documentation will work for other Virtual Machines or even directly installed onto a physical machine (e.g. bare-metal install).
This document will also cover some custom scripts to help automate tasks such as backing up, automatically growing the file system when free space is low, etc.
Tools utilized in this process
Helpful links
The list below are sources of information that helped me configure this system as well as some places that might be helpful to me later on as this process continues.
Assumptions
This documentation will need to make use of some very-specific information that will most-likely be different for each person / location. This variable data will be noted in this section and highlighted in red throughout the document as a reminder that you should plug-in your own value rather than actually using these "place-holder" values.
Under no circumstance should you use the actual values listed below. They are place-holders for the real thing. This is just a checklist template you need to have answered before you start the install process.
Wherever you see RED in this document, you need to substitute it for what your company uses.
It is also assumed that the reader knows how to use the VI editor. If not, you will need to beef up your skill set or use a different editor in place of it.
I hope this thread will be helpful to those who follow in my foot steps as well as getting any advice based on what I have done / documented.
This is a Work-In-Progress topic so I will be updating this thread as I complete/update my notes.
When finished, this will be converted to a wiki page.
High-level overview
This document will cover installation of a dedicated Ubuntu server. This will be the "base" installation of the server as a prerequisite for other documents that will build upon it (e.g. MediaWiki and MySQL). The server will be installed inside a virtual machine vSphere 4.1 running on ESXi 4.1 servers. Notes will also be supplied for doing the same thing for Oracle's VirtualBox on a Windows 7 PC. Although there are some VMware-specific and VirtualBox-specific steps, they are very few and the majority of this documentation will work for other Virtual Machines or even directly installed onto a physical machine (e.g. bare-metal install).
This document will also cover some custom scripts to help automate tasks such as backing up, automatically growing the file system when free space is low, etc.
Tools utilized in this process
- Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, 64-bit
- Portable PuTTY 0.62
- VMware vSphere 4.1.0
- VirtualBox 4.1.18
Helpful links
The list below are sources of information that helped me configure this system as well as some places that might be helpful to me later on as this process continues.
Assumptions
This documentation will need to make use of some very-specific information that will most-likely be different for each person / location. This variable data will be noted in this section and highlighted in red throughout the document as a reminder that you should plug-in your own value rather than actually using these "place-holder" values.
Under no circumstance should you use the actual values listed below. They are place-holders for the real thing. This is just a checklist template you need to have answered before you start the install process.
Wherever you see RED in this document, you need to substitute it for what your company uses.
- Ubuntu Server name: srv-ubuntu
- Internet domain: mydomain.com
- Ubuntu Server IP address: 192.168.107.2
- Ubuntu Server IP subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
- Ubuntu Server IP gateway: 192.168.107.1
- Internal DNS Server 1: 192.168.107.212
- Internal DNS Server 2: 192.168.107.213
- External DNS Server 1: 8.8.8.4
- External DNS Server 2: 8.8.8.5
- Ubuntu Admin ID: administrator
- Ubuntu Admin Password: myadminpass
- Email Server (remote): 192.168.107.25
- Windows Share ID: myshare
- Windows Share Password: mysharepass
It is also assumed that the reader knows how to use the VI editor. If not, you will need to beef up your skill set or use a different editor in place of it.