Comments on: Setting up Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache, memcached, ufw, MySQL, and Django 1.2 on Linode

By: junkiest

junkiest — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:23:44 +0000

Nice tutorial…. thanks !!!

By: s

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:30:58 +0000

deny rules go first before allow rules (ufw,iptables, etc. )

By: lemiant

lemiant — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:47:12 +0000

“Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/examplesite.com:
ServerAlias only used in ”

Ideas?

By: Mike Curry

Mike Curry — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:52:27 +0000

You have a typo…

“apt-get install build-essentials”

should be

“apt-get install build-essential”

By: Dan Delany

Dan Delany — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:27:43 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial Bryan!

For all those getting the Apache “It Works” page, but not seeing Django default page: this happened to me too. I fixed it by editing /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and adding the following line:

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/bobby/public_html/examplesite.com/demoproject/apache/demoproject.wsgi

…followed by an apache restart. Seems to work fine now!

By: axolotl

axolotl — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:17:13 +0000

Great starter article, thanks! The ufw stuff was especially useful for me – first time building my own server.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:25:10 +0000

HI,

Your guide has been very helpful. However, I’m encountering the same problem as bunny. I get the ‘It Works’ page generated by apache, but do you know why it is not giving me the django default page? Thanks for your help!

By: sdebaun

sdebaun — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:00:44 +0000

Hi Bryan

Great article/tutorial! I bookmarked it for future reference.

However I did notice something that only just made sense after reading the UFW documentation and it seems one that’s easy to miss but I think important to make clear.

Deny rules go first!

Your example seems fine since ufw does set deny as the default (I have seen varying opinions posted though. Maybe older versions?)

The link to the docs-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW?action=show&redirect=Uncomplicated_Firewall_ufw

I don’t mean to criticize, but it seems like a good habit when using ufw (and iptables?) is to set all deny rules first. Your example might lead some to set their deny rules after allowing which might not do the job…

Again, great job! I’m using your advice for the mysql settings and am happy with the results.

Thanks!

By: jan

jan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:35:04 +0000

is it possible to configure ufw before enabling it? i just locket myself out of my server, d*mn

By: Heinrich

Heinrich — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:21:40 +0000

Very helpful, i got a server and this is what i needed to do