HOW TO : CentOS 3/RedHat 9 ---> CentOS 4.5, Step By Step.
May 18, 2007
I've made a how to, based on my personal knowledge about upgrading a CentOS 3, RedHat 9, or 8?, Fedora Core, and maybe others, to the new CentOS 4.5 OS. (or CentOS 4.x)
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Please post, comments, questions, etc. here.
I've myself upgraded many servers this way, (even, tonight, I upgraded another, so I finally decided to do this with all my notes)
I have a registered domain with oneandone (mydomain)
So what I want is nameservers, ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com when people are viewing any of the sites on my server.
Basically i need to know, step by step on how to, do this, please I have read all the guides but they dont say exactly how oneandone point to my server, I think I have done most stuff on the server side.
So I want a site mydomain2.com they can change their nameservers to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com and it links to my server.
Just signed up for Knownhost VPS and have 3 sites (all on individual shared hosting) that I want to setup but I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure things out.
I've read the entire directadmin (site-helper.com) but still having trouble setting things up. I know what all the terms mean but i'm stuck on how to setup the DNS, what suppose to point to what, creating 3 individual accounts for the 3 sites, etc.
First I want to say hello and thanks for the great advice I've gotten on this forum. You guys have saved me a ton of time and heartache in regards to hosting accounts.
I was told by my hosting company that a VPS account isn't designed to be an step up from a shared account. I always viewed a VPS account as the intermediary between shared and dedicated. The hosting company basically told me that a VPS server is designed as a testing environment and you can run out of resources pretty quickly in a production environment.
how to buy domains but what is the next step . i heard from my freinds that i we need to setup name servers and some other things before my site goes live,
linux and after several days testing different distributions and a bunch of different ways (e.g. freenx,vnc XFCE ...) I've decided to setup a vnc-server on CentOS-5-i386-minimal and use KDE as a desktop environment.
After reloading my vps with centos-5-i386-minimal, I logged in as root and executed:
Code:
yum update
yum -y groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum -y install vnc vnc-server firefox X11 xorg
I then added a user "abt" and set the password. Then I logged in as abt and execute : vncserver, it asked for the password and created the appropriate .vnc directory and files.
I then edited xstartup file and replaced "twm &" with "startkde &" and executed vncserver once again, this created desktop number 2 for me.
The problem is that after running TightVNC(on vista) and entering IPNUMBER:2, It successfully connects to vnc-server but what i get is a black screen with X cursor!
i have a colo server, lately im having problem, every 2-3 oclock in the morning my server crash, i asked the server management to have a look at it but no luck, they install rpm, reduce the http max, etc, etc ( i dont want to mention the name since my server management have helped me alot and its not fair for them if i speak a bad thing about them ) anyway,
I bought the server from siliconmechanics iServ R254
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 Quad-Core 2.33GHz, 12MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, 45nmHi-k RAM: 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR2-667 Registered ECC - Interleaved NIC: Intel 82573V & 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers - Integrated Hot-Swap Drive - 1: 150GB Western Digital Raptor (1.5Gb/s,10Krpm,16MB Cache,NCQ) SATA Hot-Swap Drive - 2: 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (3Gb/s, 7.2Krpm, 32MB Cache, NCQ) SATA Optical Drive: Low-Profile DVD-ROM Drive Power Supply: 520W Power Supply with PFC - 87% Maximum Efficiency Rail Kit: 2-Piece Ball-Bearing Rail Kit OS: CentOS 5 - 64-bit - Preload, No Media Warranty: Standard 3 Year - Return to Depot - Advanced Component Exchange
I have dedicated works on Centos 4. Now I have to reinstall OS. Administrators recommend me to put again Centos 4 and I would like to install Centos 5. Would like to hear opinion of professionals what it is better to put?
I've just leased my first dedicated server from managemybox, which has come loaded with centos 4.5.
I need to install all the ffmpeg/transcoding junk - something I've done before...
...but now, I'm having huge issues. Yum and up2date don't seem to have *any* idea of where anything, from ffmpeg to flvtool2 is.
I'm crap at quite a bit (read most) of the command line stuff. Whadddoo I need to do? Why is yum telling me there are no matches for the damn stuff?
How can I get from A to B properly without the hassle?
I did have a VPS before, with memset.com - and all this stuff installed fine on Fedora 4 (it was a VMWare based VPS so everything worked, unlike the Xen based ones I've experienced).
-------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------ERRORS I AM GETTING----------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority sh: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No such file or directory
New 'server.xnwo.net:1 (root)' desktop is server.xnwo.net:1
Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /root/.vnc/server.xnwo.net:1.log
sh: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No such file or directory [root@server ~]# -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
and when i connect using vnc viewer, i get this grey background and a box on the top left. has it been installed correctly? any other steps needed?
Here is the screenshot of the background i see when connecting. [url]
I would like to get a second opinion on this. I was going to put CentOS 64 bit on my server but I have been told to put the 32 bit version on it instead because it is a more stable version. I have never heard this before and am new to doing colo and would like to verify this before I end up doing something I may forget?
I've recently started using apt on centos, using the tutorial I found on dag's site. So far I'm enjoying it, since I have years and years of experience running debian unstable.
Are there any caveats? Has anyone here tried doing a dist-upgrade to a new version (say CentOS 5)?
Why does CentOS come w/ such an outdated PHP package? IS it modified to fix the bugs, but the version number stayed the same?
I would like to upgrade to PHP 4.4.6 - are there any issues I should be aware of? This is my 1st Linux box and installing software is not something I am really comfortable with yet.