Debian Linux Server Setup and Administration Essentials
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Build practical skills in Linux OS installation and web server setup with this tutorial for beginners.
- Physical dedicated server set up
- DigitalOcean and Amazon Web Services virtual private server set up
- Debian Linux operating system installation
- Apache 2 web server / Nginx, MySQL / MariaDB database and PHP installation
- Tuning the web server for low memory systems
- Setting up a personal web hosting
- Applying security tweaks to your server to make it less vulnerable to external attacks
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Learning Linux server setup essentials puts a very powerful and useful tools at your disposal. After finishing this course you will be able to organize your personal web hosting and any other web-based service out there, from e-mail to file sharing service.
Save money, take total control over your data and have fun!
Content and Overview
Suitable for beginning system administrators with zero experience in Linux administration. Through this course of 46 lectures (will be adding more regularly) you’ll learn all of the fundamentals of web server administration, and gain experience in setting up Linux server OS and LAMP stack. Each chapter is packed with step-by-step guides which will put your new learned skills into practical use immediately.
You will start with choosing the right platform for your server. Then you will install Debian Linux OS to the server and set up the LAMP stack. After that you will configure multiple Apache virtual hosts and Nginx server blocks, create your first MySQL/MariaDB user and database, and finally you will install WordPress to your new server.
Students completing the course will have the knowledge and skills to set up and administrate their personal server.
Note, that this course shares some basic theoretical content from my other course “CentOS Linux Server Setup Essentials for Webhosting and More”, but all the practical lessons are being designed for Debian Linux.
Working through all the lections and command-line commands, you’ll be able to instantly put the knowledge into practice, and will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
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Introduction to the Course
Welcome to my course on Linux server setup!
I’ll go over the broad topics we’ll cover in the course. I’ll state what to expect from the course and will give you some ideas on why you might need your own server (either you are an IT person or not).
In this lection I will give you some ideas on how can you utilize a personal server for your various needs.
A short BIO of me as your instructor:
- 15 years in web development business;
- 7 years in IT consulting;
- 5 years in hosting business;
- PhD in enterprise information strategy.
This lection is about hardware and software you’ll need.
In short, you will need:
- Any PC or laptop running Windows, OS X or Linux desktop as your workstation;
- Internet connection;
- Notebook and a pan for note taking (Evernote or Microsoft OneNote will be even better) (highly recommended);
- 2+ Gb USB flash drive or a DVD-R drive (optional);
- Server computer or a dedicated PC (optional);
- Dedicated static IP address (optional).
To get maximum out of this lessons, chose the desired platform (a dedicated physical server, a virtual server or a virtual machine) in further lectures and please do repeat all the practical lessons to gain your own experience!
This course is about practice -- there is no point in just watching the video lectures or reading the instructions. And, please, take notes! Create your own knowledge base in a note taking app and use tagging (!), so that you can quickly find a command or solution you need at the moment.
Command line may seem to be an out-fashioned old-style way of communicating with a computer, but it may be much more powerful, fast and comfortable then a graphical interface. You may want to think of it as of a Siri that understands a specific dialect (“commands”), a way to directly talk to a computer.
Choosing the Right Platform for Your Server
We will talk about pros and cons of having a physical server (either in a data center or at home/office), what actually is a virtual server and what are its’ limitations.
If you want to have a server at home or at your office and don’t want to pay extra money for a specialized server hardware, you may still set up a server on an ordinary PC, even an old one (not too old obviously).
A bit deeper look into what virtual server are and how do they differ. We will answer a question: what is a difference between VPS and VDS?
Now you are ready to start your own journey to the world of server setup.
Installing Linux OS to Your Server
We will learn how to prepare the installation media with Unetbootin tool for Microsoft Windows OS users.
We will learn how to prepare the installation CD or DVD for Microsoft Windows OS users.
We will learn how to prepare the installation media with Unetbootin tool with some tips and tricks for OS X users.
We will learn how to prepare the installation CD or DVD for OS X users.
This lection will cover all steps of Linux OS setup for physical (dedicated) server: from configuring the BIOS to change boot order to step-by-step Linux installation guide.
In this lection you we will:
- Change the BIOS configuration to load the system installation tool from DVD or USB drive;
- Go through all steps of Debian Linux setup process.
This short lection is to show you that virtual server option is the way to get rid of all difficulties you may face before and during Linux installation. Moreover, going into VS you will not need to support the hardware of your server at all: no need in power backup, no need in fast internet channel and static IP address, no need in fixing broken hardware if it fails and much more.
We will cover all the steps of creating a virtual server (so called “droplet”) at DigitalOcean.
You will learn:
- How to set up your Linux server in 60 seconds;
- How to choose data center location for your droplet and a droplet size with best cost/performance ratio;
- How to configure secure encrypted connection to your server.
See additional materials for a free $10 bonus to have a quick start with DigialOcean.
We will cover all the steps of creating a virtual server (so called “instance”) at Amazon Web Services.
You will learn:
- How to set up your Linux server in just several minutes;
- How to choose data center location for your instance and an instance size with best cost/performance ratio;
- How to configure secure encrypted connection to your server.
This lesson will show you how to connect to your newly setup server via SSH.
You will learn:
- What software you need for SSH connection;
- How to connect to your server using a password or a secure key pair;
- How to connect to your server from your smartphone or tablet.
Turning the LAMP On
This lection is about what LAMP stack is. Putting simply, LAMP is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since our server is already up and running Debian, the linux part is already taken care of. And Section 4 is about how to install and configure the rest.
This lection is about how to install and configure Apache webserver.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for Apache. We will install the Apache Web Server to your server via command line and configure it to run a simple HTML-based website.
See additional materials for linux commands we use here so you can copy and paste them into your console.
This lection is about main differences between Apache and Nginx webservers.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for Nginx. We will install the Nginx Web Server to your server via command line and configure it to run a simple HTML-based website, and configure server blocks (virtual hosts).
See additional materials for linux commands we use here so you can copy and paste them into your console.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for MySQL database server. I will guide you through the installation process. We will also install a web based database administration tool – phpMyAdmin – so that you can do all the basic administration through a convenient web interface.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for MySQL database server. I will guide you through the installation process. We will also install a web based database administration tool – phpMyAdmin – so that you can do all the basic administration through a convenient web interface.
This lection contains linux commands we use here so you can copy and paste them into your console.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for MariaDB database server. I will guide you through the installation process.
This lection is a step-by-step installation guide for PHP. We will install PHP and configure it for further use.
This lection contains commands we use to install and configure PHP so that you can copy and paste them into your console.
This lesson contains some modifications to LAMP configuration files for servers that run on Low Memory computers. These tips will help you make such systems more responsive and avoid out-of-memory issues.
This lesson contains console commands for servers that run on Low Memory computers. These tips will help you make such systems more responsive and avoid out-of-memory issues.
This lecture is about installing some very usefull tools to help you be more productive with your newly configured server.
This lecture contains console commands for installing some very usefull tools to help you be more productive with your newly configured server.
Setting Up Your First Truly Personal Website
In this lecture we will learn how to configure multiple Apache virtual hosts to host several websites on your webserver.
This lecture contains console commands for configuring multiple Apache virtual hosts to host several websites on your webserver.
In this lesson we will learn how to administrate databases, users and permissions through command line as well as with phpMyAdmin tool.
You will learn how to:
- Create and remove database users;
- Create, remove and edit databases;
- Assign permissions to users.
In this lesson we will install WordPress CMS to your new server.
In this lesson we will learn how to:
- Prepare your server for Wordpress installation by creating MySQL database and user;
- Download the installation bundle;
- Actually install Wordpress CMS to your server.
I will also give you a simple shell script to make Wrodpress installation easier for you.
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