Coto: A Useful Tool for Fast and Easy Web Server Installation Under Ubuntu

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Coto (aka Fast and Easy Web Server Installation) is simply a Bash script that allows users of Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Debian, and Mandrake to install and configure a web server in an easy and fast manner. Coto allows for example to:

• Update and install Apache, PHP, MySQL, SQLite, Django, and Subversion
• Configure SSH and IPTABLES
• Configure and securitizing Apache and MySQL
• Create SVN and TRAC repositories
• Create a mail server
• Create a cron backup (mysql, apache, trac & svn), etc.

To install Coto under Ubuntu, open the terminal and run the following commands:

cd
wget -O coto-server-easy-install-0.2-17.tar.gz http://goo.gl/kXmDb
tar zxvf coto-server-easy-install-0.2-17.tar.gz
cp ~/coto-server-easy-install-0ae46a9/config.sample ~/coto-server-easy-install-0ae46a9/config

To start the installation, run this command:

sudo ~/coto-server-easy-install-0ae46a9/install.sh

A list of options will be proposed (go now through each option to install and configure your web server):

For more help about this Bash script, you can refer to its creator here.