MaxxD
April 18th, 2009, 09:05 PM
Hello everyone. I have been doing web development for quite some time now and have always had an in-house development server running php & MySQL on IIS. Well, that system finally died, so I bought a new box and decided to wipe out the default XP Home and install Ubuntu server on it. Now, I just want this for in-house testing (before clients see the pages) so it needs to be reasonably secure, but I need to be able to develop on my Windows box and ftp or file-share (preferably both) the files to the dev server so I can view it on my Windows box in one of my browsers.
I installed Ubuntu 8.1.0 server just fine (LAMP, OpenSSH, Samba, File and Printer Sharing installed), and immediately surfed to http://box_name/ web page - got the "It Worked!" page. I was happy. But then it occurred to me that I had no idea how to put pages on the system, so I started reading. I've now got ProFTPd installed and running and can connect to the Ubuntu dev server from my Windows box via ftp just fine. Problem being, I can't create or delete any directories or files through Filezilla on the Ubuntu dev server.
I also can no longer start the Apache2 service - I get a [ Fail ] every time I try.
I haven't gotten to the point of even attempting to configure Samba yet, though I would happily take any advice about that. However, of more immediate concern is that I'm pulling out hair trying to configure ftp access for myself and to set up the web server. I'm using PuTTy to connect to the Ubuntu server from the Windows box, btw.
Most of the threads that I've seen about Ubuntu-Windows P2P networking seem to assume that you're using the Ubuntu box as your main box - I'm not. I don't have monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached to that box now and I'd like to keep it that way.
I've also always used someone else to host the sites I create because I know jack-all about *nix (a fact that is completely biting me in the butt right now) and it's just easier to use someone else to physically host the sites. I don't want the dev server to be available to the public, just me and the one other computer in the office. Most of the articles I've seen about setting up ProFTPd and Apache assume a level of knowledge about base-level server configuration that I'm really not sure I have at this point.
Anybody have any uber-newbie advice, tutorials, articles, or walk-throughs - anything really?
I installed Ubuntu 8.1.0 server just fine (LAMP, OpenSSH, Samba, File and Printer Sharing installed), and immediately surfed to http://box_name/ web page - got the "It Worked!" page. I was happy. But then it occurred to me that I had no idea how to put pages on the system, so I started reading. I've now got ProFTPd installed and running and can connect to the Ubuntu dev server from my Windows box via ftp just fine. Problem being, I can't create or delete any directories or files through Filezilla on the Ubuntu dev server.
I also can no longer start the Apache2 service - I get a [ Fail ] every time I try.
I haven't gotten to the point of even attempting to configure Samba yet, though I would happily take any advice about that. However, of more immediate concern is that I'm pulling out hair trying to configure ftp access for myself and to set up the web server. I'm using PuTTy to connect to the Ubuntu server from the Windows box, btw.
Most of the threads that I've seen about Ubuntu-Windows P2P networking seem to assume that you're using the Ubuntu box as your main box - I'm not. I don't have monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached to that box now and I'd like to keep it that way.
I've also always used someone else to host the sites I create because I know jack-all about *nix (a fact that is completely biting me in the butt right now) and it's just easier to use someone else to physically host the sites. I don't want the dev server to be available to the public, just me and the one other computer in the office. Most of the articles I've seen about setting up ProFTPd and Apache assume a level of knowledge about base-level server configuration that I'm really not sure I have at this point.
Anybody have any uber-newbie advice, tutorials, articles, or walk-throughs - anything really?