Installing the Arch server

[viking60]

I have this laptop that is fine but the letter "s" does not work so I decided to use it for the Arch server.
http://docs.archserver.org/

Since I de-installed Mandriva on it and want to keep Vista, I managed to royally fubar my grub, so nothing would boot at all.
Reinstalling was impossible too I just got "there is an error" so I had a useless box at my hand. The solution was a Mandriva free usb pen. It has the repair functions but even that would not fix my grub. But It easily reinstalled the Windows boot.
That is where I am at now, I will let you know..................
Oh yes you might wonder how I can set up Arch without an "s" on my keyboard - That is the easy one:
I just hit ALT and punch 115 then I let ALT go and the "s" is on the screen.
The problem with dual boot these days is that Windows comes with several primary partitions. Since there is a maximum of four, there are not enough primary partitions left for Linux.
I just got to many primary partitions so I removed Windows
Auto partitioning went fine.
Installing the software now. All of base and a bit of base-devel. No problems.
Configuring... Seems okay.
Time to reboot
The testing can begin.
Got the repositories set in /etc/pacman.conf and downloading the meta-package "base" It sure is a lot of software
Ok got ssh running so I can remote control the lap. I now have the server set up so what can I do with it? I decided to make it a LAMP server.
LAMP= Linux Apache Mysql PHP (or Perl or Python or all of them )

That is a lot to install. Got apache, php, and mysql installed now and want to test it with phpmyadmin. PHPmyadmin was in the server repos - that is nice - Centos does not have it in their standard repos.
To do that I need to configure mysql:
Start the deamon

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sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld start

And then I need to configure Mysql like this:

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sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Hit enter on the first prompt because you have no password yet. Then answer Yes and provide a password for the mysql root user (That has nothing to do with the Linux root user - remember that!)
After that you can safely answer "Y" to any question.
And then I needed to download some PHP and the Archserver site was down -including the repos!
Not very reassuring for a server site if you ask me (uh. server must be down ).
I think I'll drop this one and set up the regular arch as a server.

[dedanna1029]

Nice.

Once you have it down, it will probably be worthy of Tips 'n tricks, don'tcha think?

[viking60]

Yes that or distro talk - I had a bad moment there

[dedanna1029]

It's okay. Let's see how it all turns out, and then I'll move it to wherever and edit out the extranneous stuff at that time. No worries.

[viking60]

The site archserver.org has been down for more than 9 hours now. I will have to wait before I go on (I will try that first). I wonder if the site is using the Arch server
I am a bit impatient here, I know. Because it was all going so well, and now I cannot download the components needed.

[dedanna1029]

Well, you know what they say. What goes down, must come up at some point.

Er, something.

[viking60]

yeah I go with the er something. The damned site had been down for more than 24 hours now

[dedanna1029]

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

Will see if I can get a question answered about it on Twitter.

For all the good it will do. They haven't tweeted since Sept. 24th

Also, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105862

[dedanna1029]

It's back up now.

http://www.archserver.org/

[viking60]

Yes I'll continue. I am having a hard time getting php to work.

[dedanna1029]

I'm thinking I may have seen something about that on their forum... hhmmm... not sure though.

I'll have another look and let you know if I come up with anything on it.

In fact, see if the issue you're having is listed here.

You can see if there's any help at the PHP section of their wiki as well.

[viking60]

No I have got it now I just forgot to include the php5.conf file in httpd.conf. PHP is working just fine now. Now let's see if we can get phpmyadmin to work...