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Help me convert my server to linux! plz

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Ibanez3434

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ok, so I had a windows server with web/ftp on it. I decided to move it all over to linux. I am still very new to linux. I've been trying for the past 2 days just to get the FTP up, and haven't really got anywhere. I also want to get a SSH, and shoutcast server up to. But I want to get my Web and FTP up first. So first things first, what is a good FTP Client? I would like to have one that I could configure with a GUI for now, untill I get a lil more knowledge about linux. I want to have an anonymous user, where you can just type "ftp://IP ADDRESS" and be in. And have a user to upload files to my Web server, and to my shoutcast. And plz dont tell me just to google it, beleave me I have, and will continue to. Any help would be GREATLY appritiated.
 
1st stop should be a user forum for the distro you installed. at the atleast tell us what distro.
 
Raku said:
1st stop should be a user forum for the distro you installed. at the atleast tell us what distro.
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Mandrake 10.1. Installed all 3 cd's. I'll check there.
 
I don't think there are any GUI configure ftp servers.

Redhat or Mandriva may of made their on, but all the best ftp progs use conf files.

They arn't that difficult to use, just dive in and be careful, most are documented fairly well.
 
A good FTP client is gFTP, but since you're setting up a server perhaps what you really want is a good ftp daemon? If that's the case, then you should look at vsftpd.
 
puck said:
I don't think there are any GUI configure ftp servers.

Redhat or Mandriva may of made their on, but all the best ftp progs use conf files.

They arn't that difficult to use, just dive in and be careful, most are documented fairly well.
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well in that case, I already have PureFTPd. But I can't seem to make any new users. I can login with my main login for the computer. I followed the tutorial exactly, I added a group a user, then made the user with PureFTPd. but I can't login with it. Also, how do I make an anonymous login?
 
I second vsftpd for the daemon. It's worlds easier to set up imo. Otherwise you could use sftp that comes with the ssh suite.

I also second Gftp for the client.

As for the web server. If it's not apache, its not a webserver. :D :D
 
Ibanez3434 said:
well in that case, I already have PureFTPd. But I can't seem to make any new users. I can login with my main login for the computer. I followed the tutorial exactly, I added a group a user, then made the user with PureFTPd. but I can't login with it. Also, how do I make an anonymous login?
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If you want to stick with PureFTPd, try reading up on their website. However, I'd recommend removing PureFTPd and going with vsftpd; as in my experience vsftpd is much easier to setup than any other ftpd. If you do switch to vsftpd and have problems setting it up; check out vsftpdrocks.org.
 
Fedora 4 comes with vsftpd and works right out the box. I don't know much about Mandrake but I suggest you force yourself away from GUI and learn.
 
mgleason007 said:
I'd recommend going with Fedora rather than Mandrake.
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The conf-files are going to be identical no matter the distribution, so if he's got it installed, there's not much of a difference.
 
HHunt said:
The conf-files are going to be identical no matter the distribution, so if he's got it installed, there's not much of a difference.
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True, but Fedora will automatically install vsftpd instead of PureFTPd. It also has a better package manager so keeping the server patched should be easier, although it's been a while since I've used Mandrake. I didn't care for it at all. Fedora was much more slick and easier to manage.
 
mgleason007 said:
True, but Fedora will automatically install vsftpd instead of PureFTPd. It also has a better package manager so keeping the server patched should be easier, although it's been a while since I've used Mandrake. I didn't care for it at all. Fedora was much more slick and easier to manage.
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I'm not too fond of Fedora, and I haven't used mandrake for 3-4 years, so I'll back slowly out right here. :)

(Now, FreeBSD, on the other hand. So nice and orderly. :D)
 
Fedora is very nice. Just curious what you did not like about Fedora. I find it sets up Apache / FTP / Mail / YUM / Firefox perfect with no hastle. There are minor config steps you must take but as far as everything working out the box and hardware support, I think Fedora is great.

Never tried BSD so I can not comment on its simplicity...
 
carloswill said:
Fedora is very nice. Just curious what you did not like about Fedora. I find it sets up Apache / FTP / Mail / YUM / Firefox perfect with no hastle. There are minor config steps you must take but as far as everything working out the box and hardware support, I think Fedora is great.

Never tried BSD so I can not comment on its simplicity...
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Nothing specific, really. I'm sure it's a nice distro. :)

As for ftp-installs, *cough* FreeBSD does just that. Get two floppies, boot from them, and you can install from ftp, http, nfs, FAT partitions or a CD. (The CD boot does the same thing, naturally.)
Granted, sysinstall isn't very friendly, but it's not that hard to figure out and allows for some neat things. (Ever wanted to install over ftp over a parallell port link? It can handle it.)
 
I think it would be better if he setup the ftp server manually.

This way he would be able to know exactly whats configured and when something breaks he would have a much easier time figuring out whats going on.

Those auto-config things never teach you anything.
 
ok, I got it installed! I decided to go with vsftpd. So as of now I can login with my system account. and I have an anonymous account. But I edited the file "etc/vsftpd.conf" to let the anonymous user create directories and upload files. But it still can't. :confused:

But besides that, I'm ready to start on the web server. So unless you know of any others, I'm going to go with apache (Since that is what I ran on my windows box).

 
Definitely go with Apache. It works very well with PHP too (which is awesome with MySQL), although it doesn't sound like you need that.
 
ok, so my only problem with the FTP is, the anonymous user can see the files, but can't upload or download. But if I login with the system User everything is fine, so the ports are obviously open. And to the best of my knowledge it is enabled :confused:. And as far as the web server goes, I think it is installed, but I dont know how to start it, or where the root folder is. Sry to be such a noob. If any of u have AIM, or want to just SSH the box so I'll shut up LMK.

 
Ok, so I got FTP up :), thx. So now I have Apache installed, but I keep getting a "403 forbidden" error. I tryed googling the error, but I can't really find a solution exept the ones who are jiberish to me :eek:. so I'm guessing it is a permissions error. How do I fix that?

Also I want to be able to upload files with FTP. So should I create a new user, and make the "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs" its home dir?

Thx for the help so far.

 
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