The Blog of Tom Webster
Chronic Ranter, Reviewer, and Developer. I speak only for myself, opinions are my own.
Ok! Now that you have a working Ubuntu box, we need to forge a path to get to
it from the outside. This tutorial will be… well.. completely and utterly
useless unless you follow the next one. Especially the next one. The first
thing we need to do is set up your router to forward ports. You should become
extremely familiar with this process, as you’ll be doing a great deal of
port forwarding over the next few tutorials.
The first thing you will want to do is head over to
PortForward.com, look up your router model, follow
the general instructions.
The basic ports you should forward are:
For now… This list will grow as we add more to your server.
Now… We need to get you off of that bare IP address, and onto a domain name. Sure, you could spend the $10 bucks a year to buy out a .com domain name, but this tutorial is based around the idea that you want to spend as little as possible. This is where DynDNS comes in. Head over to DynDNS.com and create yourself a free account. Go ahead and go to the “My Hosts” section and add a new hostname.
Now… this is the important part: Naming. Go ahead, no rules here, one of the most pivitol moments in creating your network will be naming your network. Service type can remain at “Host with IP Address”, and go ahead and use your external IP address. You can leave “Mail Routing” unchecked for now. It will take a bit for the DNS records to propagate throughout the internet. I’ve had this process take 10 minutes, I’ve had this process take 4 hours. Just sit back, have a mug of coffee, and enjoy yourself, you are well on your way to having a workable server.
We will get to testing your domain in the next tutorials.
Still coming up:
About Server-Bits:
If you’ve ever wanted to get started building a server, right in your own backyard, kitchen, closet, mother’s closet, mother’s basement, then this is the read for you. Aimed at the not-so-technical-but-willing-to-learn, this will give you everything you need to build… that monster-server you’ve dreamed of. My goal: To give you a working, rocking server, for free, that you can use daily.
Here is a brief walkthrough of how Encrypted LVM works on boot.
About Server-Bits:
If you’ve ever wanted to get started building a server, right in your own backyard, kitchen, closet, mother’s closet, mother’s basement, then this is the read for you. Aimed at the not-so-technical-but-willing-to-learn, this will give you everything you need to build… that monster-server you’ve dreamed of. My goal: To give you a working, rocking server, for free, that you can use daily.
Screenshot-1,
originally uploaded by
samurailink3.
worrying and love the AES cipher.
Before you begin there are a few things this guide will assume:
1. You have a computer capable of running Ubuntu Linux 9.10.
2. You have a router with the ability to port forward.
3. Your internet connection is of Broadband capacity or better.
4. You don’t want to spend any money, or you want to spend as little as
possible.
First thing you will need to do is download and burn an Ubuntu 9.10 Alternate Install Disk. [Why the Alternate install disk? I, personally, like to encrypt my server hard drives. This is completely optional, and the ‘normal’ install disk is faster/easier to install, but this guide will walk through the alternate install disk for encryption purposes.]
Go ahead and step through the “Server-Bits #1” photo set on Flickr to run through the tutorial.
About Server-Bits:
If you’ve ever wanted to get started building a server, right in your own backyard, kitchen, closet, mother’s closet, mother’s basement, then this is the read for you. Aimed at the not-so-technical-but-willing-to-learn, this will give you everything you need to build… that monster-server you’ve dreamed of. My goal: To give you a working, rocking server, for free, that you can use daily.
I’m writing up a new section called “Server Bits”. They will be easy-to-understand how-to guides on building a server. Stay tuned…
Looking for new content to write about. I’ve got an amount of time in my day
that I’d like to spend ranting, raving, and explaining about various projects
I’ve got on my plate. Only one problem: I have no idea where to begin. That’s
why I need you to tell me. What do you want to read about? It could be
anything from, “I want to build a media server” to “How to synchronize various
folders/disks/filesystems easily” to “I want to make a DOOM server”. Anything
that’s doable and you think I could be pretty apt at explaining. Remember,
Linux is a plus, but anything that works across multiple operating systems is
great too. I could even cover programs or general “I want to do this…”
computer questions. Leave a comment! Go! Its up to you now.
I’m just letting you know… we’re counting on you.