Proper web server setup

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Published on 2011-03-05T15:18:23Z Indexed on 2011/03/05 15:26 UTC
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I just got myself a slicehost basic slice to play around with so I can learn how to setup web-servers.

I have Ubuntu 10.04.2 installed on the server.

I was able to successfully get the server up and running from scratch, these were the things I did - following this tutorial. I know this is probably just a starters tutorial, so, I was wondering if you guys can tell me what you like to do while setting up production servers.

These are the steps that were followed :

Update and Upgrade Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

Backup a copy of and edit apache2.conf Set :
'ServerTokens Full' to 'ServerTokens Prod'
'ServerSignature On' to 'ServerSignature Off'

Backup php.ini and then Change “expose_php = On” to “expose_php = Off”

Restart Apache

Install Shorewall firewall

Configure Shorewall to only accept HTTP and SSH connections(in the rules file)

Enable shorewall on startup

Add the website to the server :

sudo usermod -g www-data root
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

I want make this CommunityWiki but can't seem to find the option to do it. Please feel free to add any feedback on the processes and things I am doing right/wrong. Much appriciated, thanks! :)

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