[nzlug] Ubuntu & Webmin

[David Harrison]

Are you using the Ubuntu's Server Edition?
It does a good job of setting you up with a basic LAMP stack without  
much effort at all.
The Server kernel is also tuned for server tasks compared to stock  
Ubuntu which is intended for desktops.

Make sure you use the .deb or .tar.gz package directly from webmin.com  
as these are most up to date and do the best job of setting themselves  
up for your specific system.

Also if you find what you are pretty sure is a Webmin bug post a  
question on the Webmin forum or mailing list:
http://www.webmin.com/mailing.html
Jamie (the lead developer) is really on to it especially when it comes  
to making sure core functionality operates as expected.


David



On 17/02/2008, at 8:23 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Rob <bubaphex at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I found the problem, programs such as apache etc didn't install  
>> during
>> the installation like it was meant to in the guide. It wouldn't
>> install properly through webmin so i ended up installing manually
>> (through command on the actual PC). Once installed it that way the
>> options showed up in webmin.
>>
>> If any one has any guides to setting up simple LAMP Servers I'm keen
>> for a read. This is basically a testing server for us so I'm wanting
>> to install things like PHP,MYSQL PHPmyadmin and some sort of FTP
>> access. This only needs to be done local, this wont be used out of  
>> the
>> office.
>
> I haven't paid much attention to this before, but perhaps you can  
> help:
>
> How does installing a stock Ubuntu system, then adding the "LAMP  
> Server"
> task (and any additional packages you want, such as phpMyAdmin) fail?
>
> If you can explain how that process is failing you then it should be
> possible to provide advice that addresses the specific problems.
>
>
> Until then, as far as I can see, you are going looking for trouble
> trying to put an awful lot of non-standard software in place,  
> following
> an overly-complex set of instructions, when you don't really need to.
>
> Regards,
>        Daniel
>
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