Priming for drupal on Ubuntu (linode.com)

I recently purchased a linode.com VPS.
It took about 3 minutes to set it up..

The problem is that it came with a barebones ubuntu install, everything needed to be installed from the ground up.

Luckily I took note of the entire installation procedure and compiled it into a Shell Script. Running the script I can have a linode virtual server up in less then 5 minutes and it is ready for drupal.

It installs the following:

Apache2
PHP5
Mysql
mysqladmin
vsftp = for FTP server

configures:
mod_rewrite
ssl
curl
gd
FTP server

creates the necessary configuration "*.conf" files for you domain name.

Prompts you to enter a domain you want to host.

apt-get update
apt-get install apache2
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
apt-get install php5-curl
apt-get install php5-gd
apt-get install mysql-server
apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
apt-get install vsftpd
a2enmod rewrite
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
a2enmod ssl
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
sed -ie 's/anonymous_enable=YES/anonymous_enable=NO/' /etc/vsftpd.conf
sed -ie 's/#local_enable/local_enable/' /etc/vsftpd.conf
sed -ie 's/#write_enable/write_enable/' /etc/vsftpd.conf
sed -ie 's/#local_umask=022/local_umask=000/' /etc/vsftpd.conf
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
echo Enter a name for you site:
read site_name
echo $site_name
mkdir /var/www/$site_name
chmod 777 /var/www/$site_name
mkdir /var/www/www.$site_name
chmod 777 /var/www/www.$site_name
function create_v_host () {
echo "<VirtualHost *>" >> file
echo "ServerName $1" >> file
echo "DocumentRoot /var/www/$1" >> file
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> file
echo "<Directory /var/www/$1>" >> file
echo "AllowOverride All" >> file
echo "Allow from all" >> file
echo "</Directory>" >> file
}
function create_v_host_ssl () {
echo "<VirtualHost *:443>" >> file
echo "SSLEngine On" >> file
echo "SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem" >> file
echo "ServerName $1" >> file
echo "DocumentRoot /var/www/$1" >> file
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> file
echo "<Directory /var/www/$1>" >> file
echo "AllowOverride All" >> file
echo "Allow from all" >> file
echo "</Directory>" >> file
}
echo "#NameVirtualHost *" >> file
echo "#NameVirtualHost *" >> file
create_v_host $site_name
create_v_host "www.$site_name"
mv file /etc/apache2/conf.d/$site_name.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
create_v_host_ssl $site_name
create_v_host "www.$site_name"
mv file /etc/apache2/conf.d/$site_name.conf.ssl

There are two things not specified in the script
1. creating a local user for the ftp. just

$ adduser username
$ usermod -d /var/www username #sets the webserver as the user's local directory

2. install ssl cert

One last thing.
The barebones does not have anyway of uploading the script or retrieving it. So unless you want to type the whole thing in a text editor i recommend you
1. copy & paste the script to a file on your local machine, say script.txt
2. place in a publicly accessible server.
3. run

$ apt-get install wget
$ wget http://url/of/your/file/script.txt
$ mv script.txt script.sh
$ chmod 777 script.sh

4. run it

./shellscript.sh

oh, and you need to be logged in as "root"

You are now ready to upload your drupal installation.
1. create a database with myphpadmin
2. upload a drupal install via FTP
3. run the install

the location of your server files is at /var/www/domain.com and /var/www/www.domain.com
you can decide which ones you want