Rehearsal tasks:

You will need to network your system with an IP of your choice

• as root run nmtui to configure network
• Hostname
• 10.0.5.4/24
• Gateway 10.0.5.2
• DNS 10.0.5.6

Named sudo user

• As root
• run useradd jude which created a profile,
• Then passwd [password] which put a password for the user
• Then usermod -aG wheel jude which added the user to the wheel group.

Secure SSH

• Disable remote root ssh access within the PermitRootLogin no flag in /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
• Run Sudo Systmd Restart sshd
• logout and login again via SSH, so that your new hostname takes hold in the active session.

Join AD domain

• run sudo yum install realmd samba samba-common oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir sssd
• run realm join [email protected] yourdomain.local
• run realm list
• Make sure that WEB is in Active Directory Users and Computers under Computers

Adjust DNS

• On AD make sure that WEB is in Forward and Reverse Lookup Zone in DNS Manager

Get ready for blog installation (LAMP)

Install HTTP

• sudo yum install httpd
• Start HTTPD sudo systemctl start httpd
• On AD spot check by searching for http://serverip/
• Enable HTTPD sudo systemctl enable httpd
• Find Server's Public IP ip addr show eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/\/.*$//'

Install MYSQL

• sudo yum install mariadb-server mariadb
• Start MariaDB sudo systemctl start mariadb
• Run MYSQL security script sudo mysql_secure_installation
  • enter password
• Enable MariaDB sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Install PHP

• sudo yum install -y php
• sudo yum install php php-mysql
• Restart HTTPD sudo systemctl restart httpd

Test PHP Processing on your Web Server

• sudo vi /var/www/html/info.php
• Put following text <?php phpinfo(); ?>
• To allow traffic through firewall
  • sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
  • sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
  • sudo firewall-cmd --reload
• Visit http://your_server_IP_address/info.php
• Remove said file sudo rm /var/www/html/info.php

Install a blog

Create a MySQL Database and User for WordPress

• mysql -u root -p
• Create database CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
• Create A user for word press data base CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
• Grand access to the user GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES
• Then exit root

Install WordPress

• sudo yum install php-gd

• sudo service httpd restart

• Run the following

  cd ~ 
  wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  

• Extract WordPress file tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

• transfer unpacked files sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/html/

• Create directory for WordPress to store uploaded files mkdir /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads

• Assign Onwership and Permissions sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/*

Configure WordPress

• cd /var/www/html

• Copy config file cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

• Open Config file nano wp-config.php

• Fill in areas where it says wordpress, wordpressuser, and password

  // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
  /** The name of the database for WordPress */
  define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
  
  /** MySQL database username */
  define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');
  
  /** MySQL database password */
  define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
  

Complete Installation Through the Web Interface

• Search for http://server_domain_name_or_IP are finish installation