Monthly Archives: July 2010 - Page 4

Rsync rocks

Need to transfer large amount of data between remote servers? Need to migrate your hosting to another provider? Rsync makes your life easy
rsync -ave ssh source.server:/path/to/source /destination/dir

-z add compression too!

Install AWSTATS CentOS

http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/Install_AWStats_on_CentOS_5

Install RPM FORGE

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Install awstats
yum install awstats

Edit conf file.

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/awstats.conf

make it look like this, however change the /dir/structure/ to point to the doc root of your web folder you want to generate stats for

Alias /awstats/icon/ /var/www/awstats/icon/

ScriptAlias /awstats/ /var/www/awstats/

DirectoryIndex awstats.pl
Options ExecCGI
order deny,allow
allow from all

edit conf file
nano /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf

SiteDomain="www.server.name.com"
HostAliases="aliasa.server.name.com"

move conf files

mv /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf /etc/awstats/awstats...conf

set update profile of awstats (default is 1 hr)

/usr/bin/awstats_updateall.pl now -confdir="/etc" -awstatsprog="/var/www/awstats/awstats.pl"

start web service

/etc/init.d/httpd start

test to see if it works
http://www.server.name.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=www.server.name.com

Installing VSFTPD on CENTOS 5.5

Install package

yum install vsftpd

turn services on

chkconfig vsftpd on

service vsftpd start

set service to start automagically on reboot

chkconfig --level 345 vsftpd on