• edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (in particular ServerName)
• to have the web server automatically load / understand index.php files, add index.php to DirectoryIndex option.
• tune the number of servers and clients:

<IfModule prefork.c>
    ListenBacklog 511
    ServerLimit 5
    MaxClients 5
</IfModule>

To set up multiple web servers on a same host, listening on different ports, set the Apache configuration as follows:

• Listen <IP address>:<port> → put as many such lines as necessary (one for each port)
• Port 80 → the default port to listen to
• DocumentRoot /foo/bar → the path of files for the default port
• <Directory /foo/bar> → describe options for the default document root path
• </Directory>
• NameVirtualHost <IP address>:<port> → this defines another 'web' on another port

<VirtualHost IP address:8000>
Port 8000
</VirtualHost> 

To enable Apache user directories, see this thread: in file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.config

If you're using LAMPP, uncomment this line which begins with Include like so:

# User home directories
Include <InstallDir>/etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

After the </Directory> for the box that begins with <Directory ”/opt/lampp/xamppfiles/htdocs> add these lines:

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.so>
UserDir Sites
</IfModule> 

To authorize web pages for users, use mod_userdir.

To support PHP5 on Apache, do the following on Linux (Debian)

# aptitude install apache php5 libapache-mod-php5
# dpkg-reconfigure apache
# aptitude install php5-sqlite

Sunfreeware's package installs in /usr/local/php.

• Link /usr/apache2/libexec/libphp5.so to /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
• Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. Add the following:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value include_path ".:/usr/local/php/lib"
  php_admin_flag safe_mode on ===> or off for some wikis
</IfModule>

• Later in that file, add:

# Tell Apache to parse certain extensions as PHP
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

• Create a mysql user and group: groupadd mysql && useradd -g mysql mysql
• Run the install database script: bin/mysql_install_db –user=mysql
• Copy configuration file from share/mysql/my_medium.cnf to /etc/my.cnf
• Launch MySQL with bin/mysqld_safe &
• Automatic launching: copy share/mysql/mysql.server to /etc/init.d, then link /etc/rc3.d/S99mysql and /etc/rc0.d/K01mysql. In that script, set the basedir to /usr/local/mysql and the datadir to /usr/local/mysql/var

Unzip PhpMyAdmin in the web server's root (for example, on Solaris: /var/apache2/htdocs)

cd phpMyAdmin
mkdir config
chmod o+rw config
cp config.inc.php config
chmod o+w config/config.inc.php

Open scripts/setup.php in the browser. User & password must match something MySQL knows.

mv config/config.inc.php .
chmod o-w config.inc.php

Try in your browser: …/phpMyAdmin/index.php : you should be able to log into the database.

If you're using LAMPP, the root directory has been modified to /opt/lampp/ftproot.

In /etc/ftpusers, enter users NOT allowed to do ftp. Typically system accounts. To have ProFTPD use this file, make sure the option is enabled in proftpd.conf:

UseFtpUsers on

If FTP is slow, check ReverseDNS is disabled. You should have this in proftpd.conf:

IdentLookups off
UseReverseDNS off

An alternative to installing Apache, PHP, MySQL (etc) consists in using XAMPP, an all-in-one preconfigured package. XAMPP is available for Windows and for Linux where it is called LAMPP. It does not compile for Solaris 10.

It is typically installed in /opt/lampp and the daemon can be controlled using the command <installdir>./lampp start or stop, restart…

To harden LAMPP's security, run : <installdir>/lampp security

Configuration of the Apache, ProFTPD (etc) servers are in etc.

[global]
        server string = Boureautic Samba Server
        security = SHARE
        log file = /var/samba/log/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        dns proxy = No
        read only = No
        hosts allow = 192.168.0., 127.

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        browseable = No


[sauvegardes]
        comment = Repertoires de sauvegardes sur Boureautic
        path = /mnt/win_e/sauvegardes
        guest ok = Yes

smbd -b | grep conf

smbd is located in /usr/sfw/bin for Solaris 10.

To share a mount point with a host running Windows without any password:

[share]
...
guest ok = Yes
...
[global]
read only = No
security = SHARE

If user per-user security settings, you must first set passwords using smbpasswd:

smbpasswd -a -U <username>

smbpasswd is located in /usr/sfw/bin for Solaris 10.

To test your smb.conf file, use testparm <smb.conf file>.

testparm is located in /usr/sfw/bin for Solaris 10.

• Find out what shares are available on a given host:

smbclient -L hostname -I <IP address>

• access a given share:

smbclient //hostsname/share-U yz -I <IP address>

or

smbclient \\\\hostname\\sharename

To mount a share as a filesystem:

On Linux,

mount -t smbfs -o username=yzo,password=xxx,ip=<IP address> //host/share /mnt/point

On OpenSolaris,

modload -p drv/nsmb
modload -p fs/smbfs
devfsadm -i nsmb
pfexec mount -f smbfs //server/share /mntpoint
Password:

To disable SWAT on Debian:

1. disable localhost:901, in/etc/inetd.conf,
2. then kill -1 inetd to restart.

To disable SWAT on OpenSolaris: stop the svc:/network/swat:default service :

svcadm disable svc:/network/swat:default