Re: Newbie: Is there a basic Debian-for-ISP HOWTO?
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On 29 Jul 2002 at 12:35, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote:
>
> Hi, I occasionally train people on this and the advice that will work
> for you depends on what exactly you are after and how you like to
> learn. If you enjoy reading as much as playing around the best advice
> I can give you is the following:
>
> -- Understand how DNS works. This is crucial for understanding most
> of the 'virtual' stuff that goes on. Easy to do as there's a good
> book (DNS and BIND by Albitz and Liu) but a disturbing number of
> people demonstrate a lack of clue in this regard (I won't name
> companies here).
[grin] ... have the book, haven't perused it in detail.
> -- Once armed with the above, you need a basic understanding of SMTP,
> ftp, and http. Then pick the packages for each, and learn to make
> them do what you want. I use sendmail, proftpd and apache
> respectively.
any comments on qmail or procmail vs sendmail welcome. I've
heard Bad Things about sendmail's complexity but it _is_ the
standard ... what do you use for MLM? mailman?
> If you know all this, you can just skip the pre-packaged installs and
> do an apt-get install sendmail proftpd apache (and possibly bind) and
> you'll be on your way.
will I need sourcecode for apache to set up suEXEC options for
virtual hosting in my own choice of directory tree (i.e.
DocRoot in /www-data instead of the default /var/www)?
> There will be other equally valid answers that recommend some easy
> plug and chug solution, but if you follow the above advice you'll
> actually _start_ from the point where you understand what you are
> doing.
Thanks.
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