Webby

Small linux bash utility to build and prepare web server of your choice

Webby Linux Http Server Installation Wizard is a web server configuration tool for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Centos, and Fedora linux. You can automate your web server installation without touching the configuration files or even experiencing compilation error. You may guess this script is just like Xampp or WampServer; No this script will give you an options of various web server software to install, you can choose one of these web server to install : Apache2, Nginx, Lighttpd, OpenLiteSpeed, Cherokee, Hiawata, or Monkey web server.
Officially webby is written to help PHP/Perl programmers who need a working development environment / true website environment and it hopes with this utility they don't need to take their time learning how to setup their own development OSes, but with webby you can also to use it to setup your own unmanaged vps/dedicated web server on the internet. On windows there is an XAMPP, WampServer, EasyPHP, etc; but in Linux you have to do it manually by hand to setup Web Server, Database, FTP, and PHP/Perl environment.

Supported Linux Version (checked for testing progress)

• Ubuntu Server 8.10 ~ 18.04 (32 bit version)
• CentOS 6.0 ~ 7.x (32 bit version)
• Fedora 9 ~ 26 (32 bit version)
• Redhat Enterprise 6.0 ~ 7.x (32 bit version)
• Debian 5.0 ~ 9.3 (32 bit version)

The OS version above is using standard package distribution of minimum software tool requirements, but you can also use the below version of what is mentioned above by updating your software tools to meet these minimum requirements below :

Minimum Requirements

• Linux kernel 2.6.25
• Perl 5.10.0
• Wget 1.17.1 (optional)
• Glibc 2.8.90
• Bash 3.2.39

Recommended Requirements

• Linux kernel 3.13
• Perl 5.14
• Wget 1.16
• Glibc 2.15
• Bash 4.2

Installation

Before you can run this utility, please make sure you have a working internet connection, and also you have at least Ubuntu 8.10, Debian 5.0, CentOS 6.0, RHEL 6.0, or Fedora 9 installed on your system.

Parameters

Unsupported version

Ubuntu

For an older Ubuntu 8.10 ~ 12.10 version which no longer supported by ubuntu repository, you may install the software by compiling from source code. You need to download iso cd or download iso dvd to install system based packages, then you can use them as apt-cdrom repository.
To make your iso as an apt repository source, follow these steps below :

• Backup your current apt configuration
  
  shell> mv /etc/apt/source.list
• Make sure your symbolic link /media/cdrom is pointed to the correct cdrom/dvdrom of your iso. This should be pointing to /media/cdrom -> /media/cdrom0 -> /dev/sr0
  
  shell> ls -la /media
• Register your mounted iso to apt
  
  shell> apt-cdrom -d /media/cdrom add
• Update your apt
  
  shell> apt-get update
• Then install the basic packages
  
  shell> apt-get install ssh build-essential gettext libtool m4 autoconf gcc g++ usbutils make unzip

Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

For an older Fedora 9 version which no longer supported by yum repository, you may install the software by compiling from source code. You need to download a complete iso from Fedora Archive and create your own iso yum repository by using these following steps :

• Create directories for mounting iso files and backup your current yum.repos.d, then remove all files in /etc/yum.repos.d
  
  shell> mkdir -p /media/repo-cd/{1,2,3,4,5,6}
  
  or
  
  shell> mkdir -p /media/repo-dvd
  
  shell> tar -czvf ~/repo-backup.tar.gz /eetc/yum.repos.d/fedora*.repo
  
  shell> rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/*
  

• Mount each of iso files
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc1.iso /media/repo-cd/1
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc2.iso /media/repo-cd/2
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc3.iso /media/repo-cd/3
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc4.iso /media/repo-cd/4
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc5.iso /media/repo-cd/5
  
  shell> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/Fedora-9-disc6.iso /media/repo-cd/6
  

• Make entry to /etc/fstab to mount iso files at boot
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc1.iso /media/repo-cd/1 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc2.iso /media/repo-cd/2 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc3.iso /media/repo-cd/3 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc4.iso /media/repo-cd/4 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc5.iso /media/repo-cd/5 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  
  shell> echo "/home/user-dir/Fedora-9-disc6.iso /media/repo-cd/6 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  

• Auto mount for each iso at user login
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/1" >> ~/.bashrc
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/2" >> ~/.bashrc
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/3" >> ~/.bashrc
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/4" >> ~/.bashrc
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/5" >> ~/.bashrc
  
  shell> echo "mount /media/repo-cd/6" >> ~/.bashrc
  

• Create file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cd.repo and fill with
  
  shell> nano /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cd.repo

   [fedora-cd]
   name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
   failovermethod=priority
   baseurl=file:///media/repo-cd/1
           file:///media/repo-cd/2
           file:///media/repo-cd/2
           file:///media/repo-cd/3
           file:///media/repo-cd/4
           file:///media/repo-cd/5
           file:///media/repo-cd/6
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
  

• Update your yum cache
  
  shell> yum update
  

• Install basic packages for compiling the source code
  
  shell> yum install gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf flex bison pkgconfig rpm-build gettext gdb libtool binutils redhat-rpm-config