Running on Debian 6/Ubuntu 10.04.4.

Add the .htaccess file in the directory you want to change the default page:
nano .htaccess
Add the DirectoryIndex configuration
DirectoryIndex home.htm index.html
Save and quit
This will make home.htm the newest default page

Should work with debian also.
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS x32 system fully patched with LAMP, SSH, and Samba already installed
* Installed samba via the webmin interface

Install the local syslog server
apt-get install sysklogd

Edit the syslog server
nano /etc/syslog.conf

local7.* /var/log/samba/log.audit

Save and exit
touch /var/log/samba/log.audit
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

Edit Samba to enable the logging
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

vfs objects = full_audit
full_audit:prefix = %u|%I|%m|%S
full_audit:success = mkdir rename unlink rmdir pwrite
full_audit:failure = none
full_audit:facility = LOCAL7
full_audit:priority = NOTICE

Save and Exit
/etc/init.d/smbd restart

You should now notice the file attempts at /var/log/samba/log.audit

I needed to know what version of python I was running, so I immediately tried:
python -v

No dice.

What does get me the version:
python
import sys
print sys.version

And then I noticed that as soon as I get into Python the version is displayed. Palmface.

Just purchased a new R610 for running Proxmox 2.0RC1, but I needed a way to get OpenManage on there.

I followed a sara.nl link page to get an old version of OMSA installed. It worked great minus the small problem of not having a storage controller available. Apparently the new PERC6i controller requires OMSA 6.3 or higher. Well, I may as well go with 6.5. Fortunately for me, Dell finally released both Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6 binaries AND install instructions. I had to alter them a little bit for my prox environment, so here goes:

aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade
reboot
echo 'deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest /' | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key E74433E25E3D7775
gpg -a --export E74433E25E3D7775 | apt-key add -
apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated
apt-get install srvadmin-all
service dataeng start
service dsm_om_connsvc start
To get this to auto start on reboot: update-rc.d dsm_om_connsvc defaults
https://ipofserver:1311

Login as root and your root password.

If you receive an error with apt-get update –allow-unauthenticated, all I did was cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list and then re-run the command.

I was in the midst of my first ever PCI audit – the company I was doing work for wanted to start taking credit card orders over their website. I thought it would be easy – the website was a wrap-around of the credit card company’s authorization site, so no numbers ever touched the company-owned systems. Unfortunately the security firm required all external facing IP addresses to test. One of those IP addresses pointed to an Ubuntu 10.04.4LTS system that was running Owncloud software on apache (think DAV for multiple users via web interface).

So the PCI audit returns with a giant FAIL. Apache is out of date!

apache2 -v
2.2.14
This version came out in October of 2009.

So I edited the apt sources list to grab a newer file:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
And added:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main

apt-get update
apt-get install apache2
apache2 -v
2.2.20
This version came out in August of 2010

Run the PCI compliance test again – FAIL. Apparently they require 2.2.21 or higher. The only issues I could find with 2.2.20 deal with mods being enabled that they don’t use, or .htaccess permissions that they also don’t use. OK, so let’s go up another version.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main

apt-get update
apt-get install apache2
apache2 -v
2.2.22
This version came out in January of 2012

I verified the site was still working. Make sure you comment out the sources.list precise and oneiric otherwise you’ll have lots of update issues down the road.

Source generator:
http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/generate.php

I had just run some simple patching on a test webserver and had some issues with PHP. Ran a few more commands and the problem went away. Until I decided to patch a production server as well.

Basically the update included an apache update, which wrecked the php modules. How do I know this?

Running Ubuntu 10.04.03 LTS
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Load website and it prompts to download/save the PHP file instead of displaying the PHP file. Great.

Check if the PHP5 module is activated:
a2enmod php5
apache2ctl restart

Only the restart yielded this:

apache2: Syntax error on line 204 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So just install the module libraries for PHP5:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

This should automatically restart apache, but just for good measure you can do it again to verify there are no more errors:
apache2ctl restart