UESPWiki:Server Setup

General Setup

The following lists the various setup steps and software required for each server type.

All Servers

• Common user/group setup (see UESPWiki:Server_User_IDs)
• atd
• vsftpd
• ntpd
• libmcrypt
• libtool-ltdl
• swig
• gcc
• zabbix agent

• Modify /etc/services to include Zabbix entries
• Create /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
• Copy custom commands to /etc/zabbix/commands/
• Setup zabbix_agentd to start automatically

• DenyHosts
• Public/private keys
• Path modification to include /usr/sbin and /sbin
• Host name modification
• Ensure max open files is at least 8192.
• Setup smartd for disk monitoring:

• /etc/smartd.conf should look something like:

     DEVICESCAN -m email1,email2 -H -M test

• Restart smartd and confirm a test e-mail has been sent/received.

• Setup mdmonitor for raid monitoring if required:

• Edit relevant e-mail address for event messaging in /etc/mdadm.conf which should look something like:

    DEVICE partitions
    MAILADDR email
    ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=...
    ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=...
    ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=...

• Restart mdmonitor and confirm a test e-mail has been sent/received.
• Add the noatime option to relevant drives in /etc/fstab and remount (mount -o remount /)

Content Servers

• Apache v2
• memcached (if required)
• php v5

• eAccelerator
• wikidiff2
• php-pear
• php-devel
• php-common
• php-cli
• php-pecl-memcache
• php-gd
• php-mbstring
• php-mcrypt
• php-mysql
• php-pdo
• php-xml
• php-bcmath
• Change session path to shared directory

• session.save_path = "/mnt/uesp/phpsessions"

• mysql (just client)
• perl

• perl-DBD-MySQL
• perl-DBI
• perl-String-CRC32
• perl-URI

• ImageMagick
• tidy
• Mount file shares (wikiimages, filecache, phpsessions)

• Start portmap, rpc.statd, rpc.lockd
• Add server IP to all entries in hosts.allow and exports on files1
• Update exports on files1 with exportfs -a
• Create mount points:

• /mnt/uesp/wikiimages
• /mnt/uesp/filecache
• /mnt/uesp/phpsessions

• Mount file shares
• Add mount commands to rc.local

• Copy content files

File Server

• Lighttpd
• Setup NFS shares: wikiimages, filecache, phpsessions
• Copy file data: wikiimages, mapimages, filecache, phpsessions

Database Server

• Apache v2, php v5 (optional)
• MySQL v5.0.X
• Setup/copy database content

Squid Server

• Squid v2.6
• Apache v2

Other

• Zabbix Server (on monitoring server)

• OpenIPMI
• libssh2

• MySQL v5.0 (on backup/replication server)

Setup Scripts

The following are various scripts to aid in setting up new servers:

• UESPWiki:Scripts/create_uesp_users
• UESPWiki:Scripts/change_user_ids
• UESPWiki:Scripts/uesp-common-path

Setup History

Record of server setup steps

• UESPWiki:Server_Setup/Squid1_Feb2010
• UESPWiki:Server_Setup/New_Servers_Feb2011